The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 23784 - December 14, 2007

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Clues Answers
A betrothed princess - she dies entombed AIDA
A sticky thing, it's stuck on old dish from Mexico BURRITO
Add oomph to course at university SOUPUP
Afraid of someone shooting? CAMERASHY
After goin' on two wheels, one gear in two pieces BIKINI
Appalling gulf in security as leader's lost in glow of radiation EFFULGENCE
Author's pen POUND
Capital author LONDON
Composer - one shaped by school pupil of his SCHOENBERG
Conscript tied logs together forming river dam? DRAFTEE
Extra author MORE
Girl trailing in group describes Wonka's gobstoppers EVERLASTING
Grammatical term revised, burn a novel VERBALNOUN
Hard like this to combine tin and oxygen BILLYO
Haul up rotten fish DAB
Instrument with a whistle? KETTLEDRUM
Clues Answers
Invest currency in scrap, willy-nilly ATRANDOM
Leader essential to Soviets, arguably TSAR
Meaty author? LAMB
Not to be placed where glasses rest ONTHENOSE
OK without daughter NOD
One needing exercise joining sailors in dance - this? HORNPIPE
Pass by communist organisation offering aid REDCROSS
Politician given time to put through new bill LIBERAL
Racy author SWIFT
Similar image became distorted with lens beneath river RESEMBLANCE
Tailless fish raised back FRO
Time one put on superb coat PLUMAGE
Tough author HARDY
Try long novel on Origin of Species, though hard STRONGLY
Weak official author HOMER