The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27259

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After homework, managed to start phone call before meal PREPRANDIAL
An irksome task at noon involving male broadcasters ANCHORMEN
Award nominally associated with Ulysses? GRANT
Baseball player in jug? PITCHER
Beg directions for protecting current stars PLEIADES
Bigwig in spectacles ultimately keeps it to lay eggs OVIPOSIT
Blissful start for intern in city hospital ELYSIAN
Company of actors move in large numbers, we hear TROUPE
Counterpart works back to back OPPO
Debt-collector returns key example of erotic art NUDE
Delighted about girl meeting boy OVERJOYED
Fratricide — one in place of confinement CAIN
Hard worker abandons love for a Roman emperor TRAJAN
Haughty person regularly taking daughter round university PROUD
Just receiving drug money? It leads to legal action detinue
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Like shallow streams in country mostly containing fish wadable
Lives outside court, initially undergoing stress ICTUS
Medic keeping New Year made one in a brown study DAYDREAMER
Neat types involved in sudden exodus from the east OXEN
Note on Yankee’s funeral song ELEGY
Scientist initially bringing mice to his complex? BIOCHEMIST
Sole Liberal accommodated in old city ONLY
Sound of fellow journalist entering bank time and again REPEATEDLY
Survive danger disrupting their modest tour ride out the storm
Tip in old piece of furniture designed to be pulled out extendable
Unsympathetic detectives asked to support sick ill-disposed
Vaguely consider possible purchases, looking through lights? window-shop
Venturing to entertain judge with fish for tea DARJEELING
Way to get over a roofed colonnade STOA