The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 23283 - May 8, 2006

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A giant, so it appears, when standing up OGRE
Agreement with Rome doctor can wreck CONCORDAT
Alice turned out to be gutsy ILEAC
Archdeacon initially impatient with colleague, excusably VENIALLY
Artillery equipment easily bent LIMBER
Black and white feature in paper is half thesis DEFINITEARTICLE
Discard niblick for recycling SCRAPIRON
Engineers' ladder put out again RERUN
Fanciful composition as a faint diversion FANTASIA
Funny English fruit COMICE
Haigha's showed typical Anglo-Saxon truculence ATTITUDE
Handy means, short of time, to hurry along books EXPEDIENT
House where you may get knifed THEATRE
It sounds wrong to answer back to ecclesiastical council SYNOD
It was good to settle for a meal in middle of day LUNCHEONVOUCHER
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Jet not working - power failure BLACKOUT
Judge at dance frolicking cheek by jowl ADJACENT
Many peer amazedly in the heavens EMPYREAN
Men of the cloth may not mind being so repellent MOTHPROOF
Officer arrests us, almost drunk and lecherous LUSTFUL
One responding to pressure from tyrant to help out ANEROID
Party of us outside find a bouquet ODOUR
Passes on effortlessly HANDSDOWN
Railwaymen have points to look after NURSE
Remove tie in a French sort of garden UNKNOT
Roughly a bushel in elephant's stomach EPHA
Shock to university crowd UPSET
Tirade about a girl beaming with joy RADIANT
Warm coat to take to the cleaners FLEECE
Where American girls tend to anticipate marriage HOPECHEST