The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 25339 - December 6, 2012

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Accompanying a doomed liner, brown one sunk in Spanish territory ANDALUSIA
All there is beneath pieces buried among rotting material COMPOSMENTIS
Bird, seen off and on, doesn't like a fat cat! OSTRICH
Brave playwright born SHAWNEE
Brief party, secular hosts LACONIC
Card player's call — another cut required then? NOTRUMP
Case of the French city's occupation TENANCY
Circle somewhere to sleep on lake COTERIE
Close to exhaustion, massage students from behind — that's painful! SUNBURN
Drill tries to penetrate concrete REHEARSAL
Greed — awful decay embodies it EDACITY
Have mercy on Middle Eastern city that's been booted? SPARETYRE
Light seafood gobbled by fish, heading off ARCLAMP
Model abridgement of classic book EPITOME
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Model in hat lying back, choosing the best ELITIST
Plonk knocked back including last of Chardonnay — this usually harmless? POLYP
Print off a hundred parts, business shortly to go ahead LINOCUT
Public image not entirely proper, so nasty PERSONA
Separate figure contracted to protect one SIEVE
Succession of taps listening to discussion in Indian bakery? PITTERPATTER
Sudden attack beyond a joke, I talk of Amritsar? PUNJABI
Tack taken over to horse PINTO
Tend somehow to describe fish as caught ENTANGLED
This flier barked? PLANE
Toxic thing, original killer, ecstasy as drug COCAINE
Turret that's worn? TANKTOP
Woman who loves the other champion, many having failed NYMPHOMANIAC
Worker high on this — one stoned elector! CHERRYPICKER