The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 25668 - December 27, 2013

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Clues Answers
"Saints I had upset" — record offered by religious freethinker? DISSENTER
Bishop and mistress (with nothing being admitted!) fade away BLOWOVER
Bits of skeleton one finally found buried in green hillside VERTEBRAE
Chapter soon gets priest for cathedral duties CANON
Craft of hypocritical baddie? PIROGUE
Demanding old emperor not fit for purpose ONEROUS
Feel better, good inside FINGER
Fellow has hour in Belgian city GHENT
First couple of guests put in additional room kept cold! MORGUE
Funny business, a blunder turning up BIZARRE
Grandiose Brit wanting power and nothing American POMPOUS
Greek character gets corporal punishment and lines for cheating CHICANERY
Hold firm against religious school that makes to deceive COZEN
Is nosy person said to get something of great value? PRIZE
Island entertained by poetry bard finally put across for audience? VERBALISED
Just collecting silver in inadequate quantity? MEAGRELY
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Layman's address enthralling any number in church MINSTER
Letter not so important for reading out LESSOR
Letters with official status in correspondence from lab units OHMS
Maybe we will want national church to be articulate PRONOUNCE
Most terrifying street full of decay SCARIEST
No charge first to last, one gathered on yacht REEF
Old lover worn out — about to be caught or let loose? EXTRICATE
Phraseology of nasty letter STYLE
Protest fired up by one addicted to destructive action DEMOLITION
Refuse to act violently, as Spooner might say? REBUFF
Stop wearing jewellery in colour-coordinated harmony? BLENDING
Tree that soars into the sky PLANE
Twitter? It's despicable by the sound of it CHEEP
Wander round city, florid and back to health RECOVERED
Watches little locomotive moving south down the line HUNTERS
We can hear horse in river RHONE