The Times - Cryptic - Times Saturday 25777 - May 3, 2014

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After reflection ruler imprisons old slaver DROOL
Allow no time at all for worker to rise EMPOWER
Bellicose poet of ancient times MARTIAL
Bishop withdrawing praise BLESS
Choir travelling round North on British Airways BRONCHI
Country home beyond mountain BENIN
Electrical devices consumer introduced to theatres REPEATERS
Embarrassed, left abandoning colonist's best friend? REDSETTER
Identity removed for Queen in secret after latest PR event NEWSCONFERENCE
Itinerant trader's youngster in Cumbria? BARROWBOY
Lacking in interest nowadays, and spirit DRYAD
Last five of nine-month term in French city? NANCY
Led like Batman catching train - Robin's first to go CAPTAINED
Man shooting on street bags one more stiff STARCHIER
Metal I'd identified primarily pinched by one suspect IRIDIUM
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On the way down, holding up angry looking vagrant WANDERING
One animal clipped before another on farm - it occurs twice a year EQUINOX
One enterprise going west with wicked witch around? WHITEMAGIC
Secondary fencing involved man coming round with cutting equipment LAWNMOWER
Shrub from south porter originally removed from college grounds SUMAC
Simple refusal stops a bit of bother ANNOY
Speaker's full agreement PACT
Stain bottom of post with gloss, not top TARNISH
Strange bore in river rising - it does so at surprising times EYEBROW
Team in trade adapted my way of stuffing goose etc TAXIDERMY
To provide fresh cover for agent isn't common REPAINT
To support ace intellectual I'm adopting singular orthodoxy FUNDAMENTALISM
Veteran squaddie not taking sides OLDIE
Walk back without beginning to cry YELL
What's represented by mus or xis not a current issue BACKNUMBER