The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 4266 - March 2, 2008

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Clues Answers
A leading figure in society — newsmen follow me back EMPRESS
A novel scene, with two hundred injured now on the way to recovery CONVALESCENCE
Back copies one got in colour SEPIA
Bit by bit assembling baked food for church supper? PIECEMEAL
Compensation paid for poor motel menu EMOLUMENT
Complaint? Some riders are said to have bowed to supporters BANDYLEGS
Confirm am entering outer space, encapsulated FIRMAMENT
Deep personal probing and louse, endless vigorous combing revealed SOULSEARCHING
Device to get fish out of the river WRINKLE
Discerning part of a fish skulking in water plant REFINED
Drop, in the ocean EBB
Fish for chap on a fat-free diet SPRAT
Flier brought to grief by a gun RIFLE
Found in church in a state of collapse APSE
Gypsum seen to be deposited in mineral spring, reaching river SATINSPAR
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Left lancers in a sorry condition CRESTFALLEN
Low joint, technically speaking, where a star has a slug, being fuddled ASTRAGALUS
Parrots featuring in a piece of tapestry APES
Predict the French will occupy this section of the ship FORECASTLE
Sick at heart and head? It's due to gravity SADNESS
Simple rustic coupling with first love YOKEL
Stadium where there's a near riot ARENA
Stagger on, with little work and nothing at the end of it? The river! LIMPOPO
Sums are wrong - rubber needed MASSEUR
Take the lead and get caught in deeper entanglement PRECEDE
The short oarsman's a tosser THROWER
Three-point endeavour, say? TRI
To be blunt, a clue here could seem futile POINTLESS
Type of carp we hear lay filleted and, in this way, shrinking COYLY
Utterances of former newsman about Swiss town EXPRESSIONS