The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1369

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Clues Answers
A thousand invested in somewhere to sleep that’s heated BAKED
Assassin popular in New Jersey area NINJA
Beer? Doctor swallows one litre MILD
Blue almost all absent from greens SAD
Contend connections should involve half of area classes VARIETIES
Criticise genre of popular music RAP
Crow King included among birds shot? BRAG
Excellent way to reach the attic? top-flight
Fake blues, lacking heart - it’s a mess SHAMBLES
Feature of bowler’s delivery: position taken up on leg TOPSPIN
Follow a Parisian boarding carrier HOUND
Greed: a sin engrossing a Queen AVARICE
Hurry up with a German car deal, perhaps trade-in
Clues Answers
It’s a bit of fun to encourage flowering plant LARKSPUR
Learned river flows back, covering ancient coin EDUCATED
Most of current metal good for shipbuilding work? RIVETING
Performer rejected new routine TURN
Pub bore at first provokes sharp comment BARB
Set off recall of some fleeting images IGNITE
Small play on words ending in hilarity PUNY
Son to finish parody send-up
Source of dubious income turned out to be fiendish DEMONIC
Sulphur and oxygen no good for the air SONG
The second keyboard instrument — nothing less will do for performer THESPIAN
Thin material sags more when crumpled GOSSAMER
Vegetables, note, fed to animal without tail BEANS