The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 22853 - December 21, 2004

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Be economical, keeping marks in wallet SCRIMP
Beard sported by character reversing in drive IMPERIAL
Behave correctly - look after own pawns and queens (4,4,2,3,2) MINDONESPSANDQS
Board offer me money back EMBUS
Boorish lout's cry of derision, having to get successive rounds YAHOO
Cudlipp, for one, travelled back bearing wine EDITOR
Detectives set up man and woman in Wales in such squalid surroundings DICKENSIAN
Dishevelled types' boss supports work in writing MOPHEADS
Evidence of destruction upset a couple of teachers DEBRIS
Expression of disapproval over current fall in value DEPRECIATION
Flashy, like the bees in Yeats's glade? LOUD
Following appeals, expert encloses new part of garden PLEASANCE
Funnily, it's said to give another person precedence AGEBEFOREBEAUTY
It's the end for theatre equipment! CURTAINS
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Man or woman representing each lad behind bars SPOKESPERSON
Northerner's proposal to replace first daughter in run LAPLANDER
Oil obtainable from finer olives NEROLI
Old machine-gun Gorky saw MAXIM
One competed with a climber going up the wall IVIED
Presumptuous to confuse virtue with sin INTRUSIVE
Realistic attitude of governess about thanks raised after meeting PRAGMATISM
Shrewish woman's vote against university course XANTIPPE
Sound companies on board for trip CRUISE
Surprise greatly, like rubbish written about the Province ASTONISH
Unconventional leading character, quite unlike Leander ANTIHERO
Use plan in moving around historic war zone PENINSULA
Way to overcome the old eye problem STYE
Whisper softly, mentioning prominent figure in CND RUSTLE