The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26491 - August 15, 2016

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A branch shortly becoming efficient ADEPT
Address on Beaumont St, Oxford curiously AE Housman's? Lumme! ASHMOLEANMUSEUM
Beginning to lose in battle, he's desperate for good luck! ALLTHEBEST
Cloakroom pin where witch secures three pretty elegant caps HATPEG
Compliance in the assignment of Nautilus? SUBMISSION
Comprehensive has charged up front for cover at night ELECTRICBLANKET
Contaminate false teeth, biting article DENATURE
Emperor worshipped God over time in course of African trip RASTAFARI
Fighter capsizing before me — one easily sunk? GIMME
Hear about wood that's cheap TRASHY
Insect, say, with frail wings, by houses BUTTERFLY
Lolly in trifle promptly sent back PELF
Marine mammal, close SEAL
Old film evidently has twice bombed THELADYVANISHES
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Origins of cosmos explained: large-scale evolution brings a star CELEB
Party to empty pub, it's suggested? INON
Poet putting love on tape OVID
Precious thing to get over, competitive motoring AUTOCROSS
Put out the litter ISSUE
Quickly appreciate an appreciative audience? LIKETHECLAPPERS
Royals kept wangling a way to score, of course? STROKEPLAY
Sly, keen to hide at the back CRAFTY
State has run out of notes, behold! TENNESSEE
Stew made with a tin full of beans ANIMATED
Two boys getting drunk a good deal? ROYALFLUSH
Umbrella hardly opening, cry of disapproval about it CATCHALL
US author, books in head CAPOTE
Wrongly name birds retreating into the distance MISTITLE