The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 25037 - December 20, 2011

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Clues Answers
Alumnus's literary output? The counterpart OBVERSE
American Republican's bombshell about national emblem SHAMROCK
Avoid first couple skipping overture ELUDE
Car and boat rejected as transport MINIBUS
Confused type making something with custard, say PIE
Detached territory makes money for landlord ISLET
Distinctive role, one attracting a lot of flak CHARACTERISTIC
Drug taken by a more austere Asian? EASTERNER
Expression of surprise Gretel regularly ignored GEE
Fixer cultivated without difficulty by special constable GRUBSCREW
Fruit taken round harbour regularly for food PABULUM
Get lost here, waving tiny bar in left hand? LABYRINTH
Hardy girl meets American writer — Emily Dickinson, perhaps POETESS
Home of Mickey, Spooner's Commons spy? MOUSEHOLE
Inactive divorcee caught lying in shade EXTINCT
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Investigator the UN should get replaced SLEUTHHOUND
It conceals donkeys councillor understood to be around SMOKESCREEN
Last of spaghetti scoffed by fat landowner LAIRD
Mine provides cover for rearing little bird PEEWIT
Minister initially enchanted by university entertainment REVUE
Object to cutting material fashioned into a show REPRESENTATION
Old biblical city in north is hard to sustain NOURISH
Pigment from marshy ground buried in quarry GAMBOGE
Questioning cook's activity GRILLING
Relation's house abandoned by Hamlet's friend RATIO
Speak unclearly, beginning to mutter like Uriah Heep MUMBLE
Superior artillery officer captured extremist ULTRA
Voiced difference of opinion regarding pedigree DESCENT
Wandering around in streets is fascinating INTERESTS
Woody plant entangling a red beret BREADTREE