The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 22759 - September 2, 2004

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... land-bird stuck in the mud PUTUP
A fresh flower opening APERTURE
A party needs one - it may help you to get off ALIBI
At first, single spirit taken in by usual method? ORIGINALLY
Break down when climbing peak TOR
Build either way ENMASSE
Censor harlot SCRATCH
Citizen's best to go back into former province NATIONAL
City, huge anticlimax BATHOS
Cold, and in soft drifting bleak possibly SCRUBBER
Dodgy moment being decapitated IFFY
Don't play, score HIPPOPOTAMI
Doubt pressure is two hundred times out SCEPTICISM
Engage in onset of battle - move briskly into what? BETROTH
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Excepting capital, weather strangely warm again REHEAT
Fried dish in waste DIDACTIC
Haul useful item over LOOT
Horse in second drew one off into spectator, showing stupidity THICKWITTEDNESS
Hunt game missing last time RUMMAGE
Sameness almost translates as together FRITTER
Sensory device lacking signal about to pack up, virtually DEAFAID
Son lucky to miss introduction? That's questionable SUSPICIOUS
Teaching morally achieved, a Conservative given endless credit STEMWINDER
Unploughed area of land that's sheltered for each plant VIRGINIACREEPER
War god shows compassion, though not initially ARES
Was corrupt in order to admit theologian FIDDLED
Watch Midwestern broadcast STANDOFFISH
Without travel permit, departs for European port NOVISAD