The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28754

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Clues Answers
Awesome course briefly in focus EPICENTRE
Be dominant or ineffectual, eating dirt, exciting people wear the trousers
Bloomer adding beef to sauce OXLIP
Dancing colonialist's rhythmic movement OSCILLATION
Desert: relief with river passing through ARID
Drunken repartee in place of game presented at Christmas? pear tree
Excessive sentimentality as thug in the end rubbed out GOO
Exercise heading for disaster after hopes finally dashed SPED
Flash deputy SECOND
For example, Princeton or Ivy League's after-show party? HAIRDO
Half of weekend worker has saved is for evil lover? SATANIST
Mates who demolished a trifle SOMEWHAT
Monopoly card tears WATERWORKS
Network: asset accessed by sweetheart once PLEXUS
One flogging a dead horse, possibly, Rex admits it’s wrong TAXIDERMIST
Clues Answers
One of each from two and eight, numerically? TEN
Open to elements of in part sullenness, gutted ROOFLESS
Pan tiny bit short — vegetable eyed? POTATO
Pole in need of a whiskey quietly stops one with a punch SOUTHPAW
Possible security requirement, weapon owned by parent? PASSWORD
Remain still, or hit back, breaking leg STAGNATE
Sensational magician WIZARD
Skirt, part of uniform I discarded MIDI
Soldier scoffing knockout Indian dish PAKORA
Special forces on ship touring an American state ARKANSAS
Spinner, figure remarkably on the money CENTRIFUGE
Team was singing its own praises CREW
Try avoiding work in Asian river INDUS
Ungrateful leader on horseback entering without armoured fighters? THANKLESS