The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 24498 - March 30, 2010

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... archdeacon appears in film relay EVENT
A mountain lake is hard to discolour TARNISH
At halfway point in current term, maids get drunk MIDSTREAM
Beam that may be electric RAY
Better crowd mostly from the east CAP
Chinless wonder's house US writer used outside 26 HOORAYHENRY
Cut up in lane, get awkward INELEGANT
Drink rejected by the French primate LEMUR
Enliven judge, going on about second husband REFRESH
Feeling hungry, Gregory's horse eats one PECKISH
Flyer delivered by estate supervisor REEVE
Holy city quartering only Muslims originally? QOM
In a foul mood, this being badly tuned ILLTEMPERED
It may thus anger a Low Churchman! INCENSE
Knowledgeable about religion at last, agnostic is converted COGNISANT
Mine's extremely useful, though held to be pathetic PITIFUL
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Modest over his manoeuvres ... MAIDENISH
New plaque encapsulating a northern corporation's breakthrough QUANTUMLEAP
Old way to cross burn where fruit trees grow ORCHARD
Partnership secures runs — that's plain! PRAIRIE
Person like Holmes assimilating unknown language AZTEC
Rope the Spanish thus employed LASSO
She writes sloppy stories about disheartened boyfriends SOBSISTER
Sort of 13 to shoot first POTTO
State detectives looking into colleague's murder MATRICIDE
Support the shaken poet in Jonah's position PROPHETHOOD
Transport seen around British plant EUPHORBIA
Tree bark possibly held by presbyter ELDERSHIP
Trouble-making a king's stopped in the past AGGRO
Vague sum required to make this appetiser DIM
Volatile liquid slimmers hope to get THINNER
What players may be doing, mostly, to get protein ACTIN