The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 23534 - February 26, 2007

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American journalist habitually employed USED
Ancient Mariner's tale about this chieftain EMIR
Case not in position STANCE
Club together to hole the ball CHIPIN
Console men played with in their sleep SOMNOLENCE
Criminal, one caught in the initiation of fraud THIEF
Explosive fuel spy lit with malice aforethought SPITEFULLY
Flippant slant applied to promissory notes FACETIOUS
For this reason black king is not moved SOBER
Framing, appropriate but pricier FITTINGUP
Joint cook needs to cover KNEE
More than one sheet (name given to rope) LINEN
New Yorker pans busybody NOSYPARKER
Painstakingly careful, despite being unrefined THOROUGH
Pineapple chunk appears first - lose it GOBANANAS
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Plane it's acceptable to abandon JETTISON
Playwright is out of public view BEHINDTHESCENES
Pupil I rebuke and let go LIBERATE
Rock cake ROLL
Row about it after retirement TIER
Searches for one's ancestry ROOTS
Sex goddess has atrophied badly APHRODITE
Snack stars eat without, at first, any noticeable starry lamentation PLOUGHMANSLUNCH
Solitary island, Italian HERMIT
Sycophants with their leader taking refuge in republic YESMEN
Training is to impart national pride PATRIOTISM
Two islands are what constituted this old country RHODESIA
Unprofitable bank LEAN
Wife brought up in misery WRETCHED
Wine's hidden in instrument CLARINET