The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 25570 - September 3, 2013

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Accommodating duke, declares English to be hostile ADVERSE
Backslapping ambassador with cultural pretensions HEARTY
Beam? Sailors might, given such leave SHORE
Brownie code set up at end of kirk dance? CAKEWALK
Certain six-footers lay in its cells HONEYCOMB
Designated area in North Sea NAMED
Dissenters welcoming new day in ancient Rome NONES
Dominion where cricket is played with it LORDSHIP
Early 20th-century dead in novel about conflict EDWARDIAN
Flyer that's spotted extremely tough attack THRUSH
Frank about restricting training OPEN
Greeting inclement weather in Ghana's capital HAILING
In unusual shape, trail behind into pub after opening OCTAGONAL
Individually guzzling wine in appalling manner SHOCKINGLY
It precedes mass, in accordance with good French art ASPERGES
No go for Arabian thoroughbred or marine mammal DOLPHIN
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No way to write about cleric retiring! NEVER
Officer turns up during fatigue, making us laugh CHORTLE
One who's croaking from a pain in the neck? PERISHER
Option husband rejected, concealing protégé's fearfulness COWARDICE
Parody sending up old government department procedures SPOOF
Plant is easier to move after start of flowering FREESIA
Plant making use of tin and sodium CANNA
Reportedly Jones's collaborator's search for water? DOWSE
Scraggy bloke, non-U — what's his name? THINGY
Sort of pudding bowl with singular sign on YORKSHIRE
Support Midland team crossing river, using this action? BACKSTROKE
The Italian island with soldiers on guard, perhaps RAILMAN
Tool girl used to fence in run WRENCH
Try a seedy concoction? It was finished at midnight YESTERDAY
Weapon presenting hazard when king goes to front KRIS
Westminster's small — for a native of Zurich SWISS