The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 23176 - January 3, 2006

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Base liar, ridiculous teller of stories RABELAIS
Booze needed by married man? MALE
Card presented by cheat beginning to bluff everyone SCREWBALL
Cry of repentance is unusual in a political gathering PARTYCONFERENCE
Drag Queen's rise TOWER
Every individual top performer bags a century suddenly ALLATONCE
Exhilaration brought by organised games after a short time TRANSPORTS
Firm grip not applied to restrain Charles PURCHASE
Fools friends when keeping quiet CHUMPS
Game old king that abdicated, leaving our country FARO
Headless ghosts from hell HADES
Henry's spoken whenever there's a strike maybe HORAL
Lacking emotion and energy in attempt to convey phony praise FLATTERY
Little creature swallowing Ecstasy set in a cell GENOME
Manages to be heard in a foreign country OVERSEAS
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More than one thing left behind is reused, recycled RESIDUES
Old boy with hunger evident in figure OBLONG
Part of digestive system upset by muesli - avoid seconds! ILEUM
Perch thrown back by you initially - another fish wanted DORY
Photographer's unnamed soldier SAPPER
Reject is coming in unhappy DISOWN
Reputation coming from facts and figures about university STATUS
Scientific expert not in gripping final space launch BLASTOFF
Society today exposed by novelist SNOW
Son revealed information about mischief-maker, the idiot SIMPLETON
Study maths problem with hesitation - one may be looking for the product CONSUMER
Tropical fruit one gets growing wild on island MANGOSTEEN
Weaponry one's given to military subdivision in battle arena MUNITIONS
What comes with start of Christmas - strange repartee PEARTREE