The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26877

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A set of books inspired by remarkable island capital sao tome
After a couple of drinks, well game! gin rummy
Back with vitality in abundance a gogo
Beauty smuggling a gun, short piece BAGATELLE
Can, a container of liquid drunk by bird LAVATORY
Clean bottom lip, following medic DREDGE
Cocky model on cover, if with slight flaw OVERCONFIDENT
Dark liquid drunk by Osage leader, native American bottles CREOSOTE
Gag vacuously lame, considering skirting round it? SILENCE
Is one’s time up in Labour now, then? ex-con
Lack of honesty old city avoided? That’s not possible no can do
Language family don’t allow, excessively outspoken BANTU
Lift not working, service called in, so mended DARNED
Lowest degree, like that BASIC
Monarch in clothes, striking BATTERING
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Needs, somehow, to insert line, tricky without stopping ENDLESSLY
Old firefighter in commercial broadcast ADAIR
Old soldier on back in agony: stretcher found? YOGI
Organ that is held in each hand, further back EARLIER
Promise I've given? I don't believe it! my word
Protein-rich food source, a new green bean to eat beginning to disagree with us aberdeen angus
Rallying mid-morning? Not quite TENNIS
Slides sliding off, it separates GLISSANDI
Squeeze bone dry, if soused BOYFRIEND
Staggered — so getting teeth knocked out, possibly? GOBSMACKED
Superior type seems noisome and obviously bourgeois, initially SNOB
Terminals in nine ready, five plugs wired NERVY
Traveller on beach in shade, European plagued by insects dune buggy
Warmer place in Wales CARDIGAN
Weakness — old empire builder quick to conceal it INCAPACITY