The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 23199 - January 30, 2006

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Bits of bone originally embedded in green hillside VERTEBRAE
Black bat near back of roost NIGHT
Calmly start to sell drug outside Tyneside bank SERENELY
Change makes corporation upset and worried MUTATE
Condition of primate's ship foundering in a loch APISHNESS
Count - one confined to bed BASIE
Cruel tyrant ran the evil tribe disastrously IVANTHETERRIBLE
Egg on books requiring immediate attention URGENT
Fellow European's colouring matter COBALT
Flighty type's role in play viewed before watershed PARTRIDGE
Go before leader of platoon about to surrender PRECEDE
Grotesquely thin European, completely unclothed INTHEALTOGETHER
Man whose public backing meets with resistance TREVOR
Medic's film about dreadfully shy Scotsman PHYSICIAN
Mother and wife returning with carpet for tent WIGWAM
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Negotiate free entertainment TREAT
Occupation taking fishing requisite back to river TENURE
One habitually drinking litres in truck TIPPLER
One who wrote notes about soldier's familiar saying BYWORD
Pearl's wrong about university study PERUSAL
Politician always going round with gold sovereign EMPEROR
Quickly turns tail, last to enjoy moral story ALLEGORY
Restore Nevada city, using tax on energy RENOVATE
Shere Khan's type, extremely eager to stalk game TIGER
Spruce angler letting bait bob on water? DAPPER
This way for the track - it's indestructible PERMANENT
Tradesman's left for old servant's end of town RETAILER
Turn up without minister going over nightclub DISCO
We pray about old person with dismal look WOEBEGONE
Work bridge players found absorbing I suppose OPINE