The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 24781 - February 24, 2011

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Blind using pole with spike SWEAR
Closing words in French verse call for attention ENVOI
Criticise pettily, but hardly scoff PICKAT
Defenders worry club will get unwanted adviser BACKSEATDRIVER
Eponymous American manages to pen article where European's failed GATSBY
Fancy anorak and blanket concealing tablets: a legal variety? DESIGNERDRUG
Fire partner, ordering mobster in BRIMSTONE
Indian bread is too dry in odd places when rising ROTI
Latin mark well short, containing a zero NOTABEAN
Lawyer and CID officer host TV programme DADSARMY
Lovers find place briefly: beach on island, without publicity VENUSANDADONIS
Medium for hiding bikini line's very unusual INVISIBLEINK
Mushy peas (I say!) dipped in sauce SOPPY
My fixed training route that gives me a shapely figure! CORSETRY
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One seeing owl in small tree no more, in park PUSSYCAT
Player could go by this army officer in uniform STAGENAME
Sent message to Edward in Dallas perhaps, as leaving TEXTED
Something to sit on minutes after climbing is sack EXAM
Start to tune instruments — they are sharp THORNS
Strain chest area and wrench back BUSTAGUT
Students returning to college give one the time of day SUNUP
Ten asses used in a run, extraordinarily DENARIUS
Think back of car entering playground extraordinary at first REMINISCE
Two years on, I go wildly fluctuating YOYOING
Ultimately promising sign of me getting an award GRAMMY
Wanting state banquets, perhaps, during uprising supervised NEEDINESS
With it, sauce is revolting and dry INSIPID
Work that caddie, nearby wheeling bags! AENEID