The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 22669 - May 20, 2004

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Amphibian has to walk laboriously about coral structure TREEFROG
Base depot ordered fast transport SPEEDBOAT
Boss shaken by Conservative tale of woe SOBSTORY
Botched metrication by English, after which response is expected REACTIONTIME
Bulb one splits .... something not acceptable when lifting ONION
Butterfly's old distribution area - it's moving north with pressure ORANGETIP
Country painting's right to replace motorway RURAL
Do nought? With such treatment might one make dog useless? GOODFORNOTHING
Editor with aspiration to rise outside the world of mass communications MEDIA
Feature of a passage with a choice of opening movements SWINGDOOR
Female copper PENNY
Game difficult to deal with for Scots on board? SKITTLES
Girl walled in by stone slab which is put in cellar TABLESALT
Gloomy face worn by Sergeant Major DISMAL
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Intensely desirous to lose grammes, becoming tall and thin REEDY
Military display has tasteless items as well TATTOO
Peasant has only a pair of draught animals left YOKEL
Picture one's to move in DESCRIBE
Precocious girl, twice a mother MADAM
Publisher's past catalogue contains fifty names of those rejected BLACKLIST
Robin eagerly played Beatles hit ELEANORRIGBY
Shop has run out, after which Eire's lacking new collection of lines ASHROPSHIRELAD
Some corduroy's terrible colour OYSTER
Speedwell I note in North Italian city VERONICA
Tea before it's put in bags like so many paper folders? LOOSELEAF
Those who are not soldiers turn up to register as unemployed SIGNON
What could be 'Easy ... don't ...' STEADYON
What drunkard needs when he's in pub and it's all over REHAB