The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 22999 - June 10, 2005

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Arm lifting tree that's left in river AIRRIFLE
Book prize giver has change of heart NOVEL
Calm in recession round northern Britain, though not in Australia! DINGBATS
Clumsy fellow cutting wood died, caught by axe CLODHOPPER
Compound of silver, iodine and oxygen split by a chemist LAVOISIER
Destroy dull characters in Dickens with minimum of effort BULLDOZE
Devoted, given your brief PITHY
Digs perhaps, though not deep? FLAT
Drugs - Charlie DOPE
European banker about to tuck into food meets resistance, he abstains FORBEARER
Fish - cutter nets tons STURGEON
Game of little use when floodlights fail? MATCH
Game person to puff round island in New York PANELLIST
Horse - something taken away on board ship LIPIZZANER
I admitted to the fine, a nicker? THIEF
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Intuitive reason relations should divide modern parliament LATERALTHINKING
Learner repeated Neanderthal comment during work, it's very plain PLUGUGLY
Measure up for truck DRAY
Money - shilling in Homeric expression? DOSH
New people snared by rotten lot in racket, virtually mad NONCOMPOSMENTIS
Object to being dispatched again? RESENT
One wielding plate of cereal set before the Queen BRANDISHER
Pluto's lead providing catapult for Mickey Mouse PIFFLING
Slow down through Birmingham, perhaps HAMPER
Sound steerer through waters European FINN
Temper, given reversal of fortune MOOD
They succeed where Irish tenor fails INHERITORS
Time to break into alternative activity OPERATION
Vessel that is a deep container for water CANYON
What's hot or not on the radio CHILLI