The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 23261 - April 12, 2006

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A current entitlement to keep top of this sealed AIRTIGHT
Ambiguous, like Mrs Malaprop's tongue ORACULAR
Bad boys were part of one's features EYEBROWS
Club that equals twenty four's turnover BAT
Discomfit doctor over tapestry in quarters EMBARRASS
Drop of Adam's ale, a force in the north WATERFALL
Early Seventeenth-century woman astride a horse JACOBEAN
Endlessly cooking dried fruit RAISIN
Engineers meeting leftist about comeback RETORT
Fault in deal that's incomplete, say? KNOTHOLE
Film a postman wrapped round stylish make-up GREASEPAINT
Forest keeper invested in only coreless fruit source ORANGERY
Impossible party to get the better of OUTDO
Laudable to cultivate plant in quiet borders of Henley PRAISEWORTHY
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Lie slips out in dotty row ELLIPSIS
Lighterman's expression of surprise connected with dock BARGEE
Music arranged in record time? On the contrary SEPTET
Oppressive old tyrant dominating superpower ONEROUS
Parts of machine cleverly used to hold back hot water ASSEMBLY
Pass round a composer's last song CAROL
Pill picked up by settlers in America? TAB
Property owner perhaps has smaller quantity of gold? LESSOR
Rover was one, tucking into rabbit PIRATE
Some politicians we reluctantly respond to ANSWER
Songs a violinist listened to LIEDER
Transport buff works as craft lecturer TRAINSPOTTER
Trio involved with pure art - perhaps Reynolds' PORTRAITURE
Unsuccessful woman? Not so much JOYLESS