The Times - Cryptic - Sunday Times Cryptic 4348 - September 27, 2009

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A degree to honour the composer BACH
A strain though one isn't put out by it TENSION
Abode in order — right for the urbane DEBONAIR
Article carried around is a mineral BORNITE
Bird with broken leg circling framework GRACKLE
Brief late news reports OBITS
Cooker working. Remove egg at top, leaving the meat VENISON
Dietary advice with quick results? FAST
Dress circle appearance of this film-star GARBO
Especially good yet not at all well done RARE
Fish with port — just the thing for a weightlifter BARBELL
Forewarn drunken nomad prior to his collapse ADMONISH
Hock — his and her new, alternative tipple RHENISH
I'd acquire a tan around here in the West Indies BRIDGETOWN
Its ugly facial features resultant from a growth? WARTHOG
Keen, clear-cut incisiveness needed, in this position? KNIFEEDGE
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Ladies of habit? NUNS
Nettle — source of illness patrol-leader caught DISPLEASE
Passed over — or never did, as it turns out OVERRIDDEN
Pesky mites disrupted aria, contralto held ACARI
Pigs might fly? They did once we hear, from this hazard! SWINEFLU
Place that needed aid in getting into shape? INDIA
Points to deranged characters abandoned and in jeopardy ENDANGERED
Providing her services with small charge NURSEMAID
Ran with dash, breaking official record HANSARD
Sauce in which mice end up, floundering IMPUDENCE
She's returning us to hospital for brief spell SUSAN
Shrank from having quarrel end nastily outside NARROWED
Skip the sauce CAPER
Star hunter ORION
Take way-out matter for contention? ISSUE
Teenager getting rise and receiving gratuity ADOLESCENT