Crossword Maestro1.1 Cryptic #8© 1997 Philip ClaytonPhilip ClaytoniE-mail Phil at bukharin@ozemail.com.au or check out his site at www.ozemail.com.au/~bukharin/puzzles.htmlSUNSPOTTENDONSAOUHORHTIMERREPARABLEAIGAIIENONSENSICALTRIEHUSCREMATINGCABLEEMNRRUINANEGRAVEYARDTNNRORFDEHYDRATIONEOAIRDAPORTFOLIOEVENTECTSNSELEECHESEXACTED#Star's drug causes a dark patch (7)"Loads of purpose in body parts (7)&Send back stopwatch, as an example (5)%Concerning story can be made good (9)&Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)#Burning temperature of coupling (9)2Top communicator qualified to produce telegram (5)$Some Yeltsin anecdotes are silly (5)Cemetery's a serious place (9)!Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)Left sheet in case (9)Result of incident (5)!Left out cheese for parasites (7)(Accurate journalist demanded payment (7)+Evil, as written about a discolouration (7).Candidate has no time for ease, apparently (7)"Quietly instigate a witch-hunt (5)#Article about reckless flogging (9)To almost choose a subject (5)Alternative part of course (5)Downright fine (5)Cruel to waste money (5)Mumble an aspersion (4)Lease is cut (4)Midday change (5)'Extravagant, but terribly organised (9)Dryest arts die painfully (7)#Not dead, but strangely gave up (7)Reject the upset outcast (5)Strength of army (5)6Arrests and starts having a little torture session (5)Near a dilapidated stadium (5)