The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1009

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Big and beautiful! HANDSOME
Blue square CONSERVATIVE
Boy catches some poetry SONNETS
Christmas prize giver, heartless NOEL
Evil is returning with nefarious leader SIN
Fool, a silly sausage for starters ASS
Great lover, antipodean native hugging me ROMEO
Increasing success in sailors' drink GROWING
Insulin, say, moorhen might produce HORMONE
Not entirely laid back, bees uniquely busy in use
Obvious I had to enter competition EVIDENT
One country or another welcoming almost everyone AUSTRALIA
Papa's partner embracing good, hot rock MAGMA
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Passing trains, ten diverted TRANSIENT
Player heading for success prospers: not bad! sportsperson
Rag: it's arranged for free GRATIS
Religious education in the morning papers REAM
Same novel under new titles NAMES
Somewhat shabby, poor design seen from the back is sagging DROOPY
Strength — could be MIGHT
Sucker will disbelieve the basic truth, last of all LEECH
Type of diving ducks finally seen on island SCUBA
Very able recruits initially residing in tough US university HARVARD
Very pale, he's an eccentric ASHEN
Watch ever so unreliable, black inside OBSERVE
Wild animals: sharks, we hear? CHEETAHS