The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2483

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A real cost potentially — alternative to stairs ESCALATOR
Aggressive note easily seen by worker MILITANT
At home in safe job, well-paid and undemanding SINECURE
Expert welcoming company fellow’s award ACCOLADE
Fitting carpet evenly APT
Frank’s startled expression about religious sister I accommodated GENUINE
Hat from East I associated with fellow, painstaking DILIGENT
Information about lake valley GLEN
Job worry, I hesitate to say CAREER
Leader having lost power living somewhere RESIDENT
Line not straight in bar chart ARC
Linguistic rules diagram Mary keeps GRAMMAR
List of options guys use initially MENU
Clues Answers
Media boss provided dessert in building EDIFICE
Need ground to embrace supporters’ song, magical ENCHANTED
Poorly attired, sloppy at the outset, and last to arrive? TARDIEST
Rather indecent — not happy BLUE
Referring to pleasant surprise in quiet place RETREAT
Secure neckwear TIE
Shrub climate’s spoilt CLEMATIS
Social gathering — one providing buzz? BEE
Start ignoring peripheral bits and understand objective TARGET
Stringed instrument featuring in family reunion LYRE
Talent, a little, one learner’s shown inside over year ABILITY
Trace that’s survived in unexpected manner over time REMNANT
Wake-up call — yell, with no introduction, I constantly recalled REVEILLE