The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28173

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Clues Answers
Bird in cage: crime considering that won't open battery hen
Book, far from brilliant, cut MATTHEW
Communist march TROT
Controlling minister, one punching face DIRECTORIAL
Cooks taking requests from diners eg keep taking the tablets doctors orders
Country where some litter scattered timor-leste
Cycle round capital of Italy — or somewhere to the north TURIN
Develop complex ELABORATE
Difference in body having struck head TIFF
Exhilarated seeing books on the top shelf? lit up
Flash Croatian deputy? split second
Great runner has run off after felon CONGO
Gripped by film, therapist struck by western shrink-wrapped
Hope setting sun inspires girl visiting university RURITANIA
Clues Answers
Judge and reader glower? REFLECTOR
Metal jacket of interrogator being worn IRON
On twenty-four hours earlier, old magistrate REEVE
Pair of decisions favouring bowler confirmed out-and-out
Peacock: it goes flying around EGOIST
Runner quietly failing to jump SKI
Shaft ending in channel secured by tool AXLE
Some fashionistas smoke dope ASS
Sweet paintings etc gallery put back in container tarte Tatin
Too much womaniser of course ultimately breaking hearts, say? SURFEIT
Warning about British prince ALBERT
Where tester found parent snaffling page belonging to us? four-poster
Worried surgeon clasping cold sponge SCROUNGE
Wrecked, came to TOTALLED