The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26800

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Clues Answers
7 across not bad, according to bloke JASPER
A certain Pharisee, in drawing up set of laws, raised problem NICODEMUS
Bore witness to death, endlessly raving about trial ATTESTED
Break from home and office — about a year roughly STAYCATION
By river, right that one could take one’s clothes off AIRER
Chicken brought at first on salver? BOILER
Couple in special relationship holding dangerous amount back: a puzzle SUDOKU
Criticise touching and lively performance KNOCKABOUT
Facts relating to cattle, as it were, giving element of inspiration OXYGEN
Fancy comparison LIKING
First part of book? Letter to the Thessalonians CHI
Key, before work, to find close friend alter ego
Look after number one, excluding old girl and family save ones skin
Lousy PM’s rare high point OLYMPUS
Clues Answers
MP I noted moving around S European region PIEDMONT
No leading role in conman’s repeat offence? second fiddle
One fetching water in bucket, later a tumbler JILL
One measures short, plump mice, skinned OPTIC
One with Bible entering fool’s paradise NIRVANA
Opinion pollsters need pretentious criminal brought to book MORIARTY
Puppet containing magnet daughter manipulated for the last time? judgment day
Reaction to cold book introducing educational basics? BRRR
Rested twenty-four hours SAT
Shoots hog outside eastern section of London church poets corner
Small rise in pay coming up is worth mentioning to speak of
Sort of light, a speech abridged for new arrivals NEONATAL
This is not a puzzle with one new word, strangely no wonder
What’s met in ample numbers? PLENUM