The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 23087 - September 21, 2005

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Abandons diet, getting derisive remarks SCOFFS
Applaud revolutionary role for actor? Nonsense CLAPTRAP
Apprentices are endlessly weaving a floor covering PERSIANCARPET
Biting, as in South polar region SARCASTIC
Cleaning device with fingertip control? NAILBRUSH
Concede soldiers may be filling time AGREE
Eating nothing? Yes, it is awful, old age SENILITY
Encourage North to discard SPURN
Expedient to prevent students taking year off? STOPGAP
Forgetful soldiers, potentially considered deserters? FOREIGNLEGION
From which one jumps before getting fired? FRYINGPAN
Girl, Scandinavian, hanging around entrances to public house DAPHNE
How much does one heed military order on bridge? ATTENTIONSPAN
Imperial measure formerly used around University OUNCE
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Instrument turning up in offbeat selection CELESTA
Join up various lines, ending in portrait ENLIST
No longer moored, leaving support OFFSHORE
Nut ready to join bridge team CASHEW
One about to abandon ski resort as base IGNOBLE
Painter succeeded in depicting entrance INGRESS
Players holding an ace in card game CANASTA
Pores curiously over new name on the Spanish staff PERSONNEL
Provide song, taking part in performance LAYON
Series of consequences resulting from Chinese detective apprehending one regarding lawsuit CHAINREACTION
Team arrives by back ways ARSENAL
Team, always the fashionable sort EVERTON
They sense girl keeping back in early betting ANTENNAE
Unreliable figure's characteristic applied to ordinary soldiers TRAITOR