The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26098 - May 14, 2015

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A vicar agog to restore religious painting CARAVAGGIO
Areas of significant writing REALMS
Be extra-competitive at a winter sports venue AVIEMORE
Be worth pounds, as a creature of the night RATEL
Dead month got milder DECEASED
Divert short pipe through spot SEDUCE
Encouragement to girl to become monitor GOANNA
Grand entertainment, two grades down from the Olympics? THREERINGCIRCUS
Mother takes round prunes prepared for hero SUPERMAN
Not feminine, chucked one skirt LUNGI
Not have so much to say, being without passport? STATELESS
Obese English that one can't avoid FATE
One comic is funny but cheap ECONOMIC
Phone predecessor in full flow perhaps underground SPEAKINGTUBE
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Points presented by a TV programme in no particular way ASITCOMES
Possibility of being taken to new home with no notice? OPTION
Power source: stupidly draining a lot NATIONALGRID
Prelate half concealing a partiality BIAS
Private, perhaps, not one to join up SOLDER
Province head employing a Southern European PALATINATE
Purchase some papers to be picked up for craft BIREME
Saw worker confined in nurse's embrace CARPENTER
Say, wrong party backed in meeting SYNOD
Stubbornly unorthodox American hauled in to change his mind RECUSANT
Tending to split around back of costume is not serious FACETIOUS
The Bardell case runs into the sand, proof semi-defective BREACHOFPROMISE
What, in pub, backsliding? Should be here! REHAB
Woman's alteration over years down to this? HEREDITY