The Times - Cryptic - Times Saturday 22862 - January 1, 2005

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Be unduly busy, we hear, with sort of play MEDAL
Comparatively vexed as Post Office worker wastes time SORER
Concede about under being taken wrong: it's a sort of adjective GERUNDIVE
Customs of St Thomas's MORES
Deal with loser of Prestonpans COPE
Depict branch of tree, say LIMN
Distracting opponents playing in the snow SLEDGING
Feel sorry, having run over bird REGRET
Fleece, for one, for protection RAMPART
Having cause, watch regulator MOVEMENT
Help with froth, from her? BARMAID
High-class sports science qualification? I came fourth PEDIGREE
How paras go in - soldiers to be backed in rapid movement AIRDROP
Liquid found under the surface of Venus? ICHOR
Medical device makes king's heart stronger INHALER
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Opponent disappeared? What a tragedy ANTIGONE
Outraged cry, losing millions in fortune? Naughty boy! MISCREANT
Points to a reduction in gravity ACUTENESS
Quick attack nets pawn RAPID
Rejected house by new city NIMES
Result of being driven mad? ROADRAGE
Scale down ambition, but complete diabolical self-portrait? DRAWINONESHORNS
Sensible lens regularly used by film director WELLES
Silly old people go in to receive cash deposit LODGEMENT
Soldier likely to hear an incredible tale? MARINE
State was to ban criminal BOTSWANA
Thanks to the poet, we know pilgrims met here TABARD
This army so valiant, getting involved? SALVATION
Went over poem in jazz setting TRAVERSED
West Country publication secures upper-class actor and author SUMERSETMAUGHAM