The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2223

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A girl is too short, sad to say ALAS
A large protective coat for church table ALTAR
Celebrity vet has removed tail fast STARVE
Choose a bloomer, reportedly for hot sauce PICCALILLI
Complained peevishly, upsetting me, my dear! YAMMERED
Cosy in US, indulge every so often SNUG
Crime relating to fight with sword OFFENCE
Editor’s bringing people in for edits EMENDS
Elephant: black thing that flies! jumbo jet
Five hundred in unusual Spanish football gear shin pads
I’d turned back, seeing difference of opinion DIVISION
Insect found in Quantocks ANT
Keen on one set of books only, at first INTO
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Larks, in a whirl, land in Indian Ocean Sri Lanka
Love song composed about very English kitchen accessories oven gloves
Metal leg, able to be pressed into place iron-on
Old and dull doctor that is descending on Irish party dried-up
Old imperial Roman, or Egyptian, gutted after revolution NERO
One embraced by fat Scottish landowner LAIRD
Pact, at heart, what’s needed for binding agreement ACCORD
Regretful writer, one with temporary accommodation PENITENT
Send up and look at daily paper LOFT
Some obtain an estimate that’s most foolish INANEST
Souvenir of yours truly, without article, meant nothing MEMENTO
Thirty seconds, perhaps, to put on one’s skirt MINI
Transport judge on yacht, first of all JOY