The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26858

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Author secretly wore tights to dance ghost-write
Butter in hospital leaving taste less refined INTRUDER
Caption rewritten to protect leader of Lords Spiritual PLATONIC
Charming area within reach across river ADORABLE
Cleverly sculpted statue likely to be hollow ASTUTELY
Column only remaining in support for bridge PILASTER
Cynic — one involved in swindle — means to inherit DIOGENES
Dodgson right in tune with literature initially CARROLL
English lecturer raised point NODE
Flavouring rib and leg with salt TARRAGON
Gag first couple from Lebanon, smuggled in after SILENCE
Game found by river — deep but not wide POLO
Golden vegetable seen in cultivated land ORCHARD
He wrote line about good companion LONGFELLOW
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Heroic lover with piercing sidelong look LEANDER
House physician makes chief executive powerless RESIDENT
Joint ruler and poet wanting start on time TETRARCH
Material from Derbyshire depressed chap blue john
Medical man with drill causing misery MOPE
Military alliance in collision at once NATO
Oily substance from tree put in ground with nitrogen TURPENTINE
Old prince at graveside finally choosing body ELECTORATE
Old warrior pilots circling raised ground ACHILLES
One million central to assets — that's a rough guess ESTIMATE
One's honour in life less if solitary LONESOME
Opening cold beer, expose rabble CANAILLE
Row about books possibly disheartened retired printer LINOTYPE
You could say we admitted to sick satire as it were