The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 25881 - September 2, 2014

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Are suet crumbles luxurious? No, the opposite! AUSTERE
Bags of empty instruments DRAINPIPES
Blue ground covering marine area fit for operation USEABLE
Couple regretted leaving university in rows TIERED
Cuts, no end of Whitehall procedures OPS
Defensive arrangement of royal assistant overheard PALISADE
Extremely strict girl cracks joke PURITAN
Go AWOL? Sailor's upset soldier DESERTRAT
Having difficulty finding place for bird's nest? INTHESOUP
Holiday queues not new, leading to blows EASTERLIES
I alter this for a trusted friend EGO
Lose one's grip on holiday journey LEAVEGO
Man that is first for solo piano parts IVORIES
Mark, rising oarsman, staying behind at university UPSTROKE
Master baker, temporarily unavailable is avoiding work BUNKINGOFF
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Mountainous country's very boring hotel refurbished LESOTHO
Near retracted cattle pens time and again NEXTTO
Note charges up and consider it acceptable SEEFIT
Pass on what could be heard as Indian region scandal DELEGATE
Pennsylvania meaning to introduce racing event: moped, for one, is in it PASTTENSE
Pressure shown by a short graduated measure? PASCAL
Queue's said to follow this series at peaks ATOP
Sign of cold French winter featured in carol? SHIVERING
Son quits game SEVENS
Spendthrifts favouring lodgings around a lake PRODIGALS
Stand in Tube jostling with Tutsis SUBSTITUTE
Stick end of leg forward in a toboggan GLUE
Taunting of a batsman leads to square leg boundary! SLEDGE
Whole numbers of irregular regiments losing heart INTEGERS
Woman and daughter break into shop — one lifts loads STEVEDORE