The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27953

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A talk hosted by leader in sport KAYAKING
Blooming Conservative in clear OUTRIGHT
Brother turning up with companion grabbed by murderous twin CAPUCHIN
Candlemas to Lent, not entirely hot STOLEN
Cargo ship carrying quality plant COTONEASTER
Component with unknown function PARTY
Disappointed expression of Finn, perhaps, aboard vessel SHUCKS
Doctor on leave gets dope from Australia DRONGO
Eager to get area in country evacuated HUNGRY
Endless exercising beneath one — what's the alternative? IDLENESS
Examiner with case of coursework entering lift CHECKER
Filter problem RIDDLE
I hand over beer in metric weight for African challenger? KILIMANJARO
Lend setter, for example, audio equipment SUBWOOFER
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Mock swimmer COD
More than one wood ending in gunwale carried by 15th-century ship PINETA
Pitch black: zero light initially when getting up LOB
Relative value not nice, odd bits thrown away AUNTIE
Shetland island qualified as rocky UNSTABLE
Something to deal with in hospital delivery leg break
Spirit in bottle in Egypt arising GENIE
Stick a short gun in more efficiently when sawn-off BAGUETTE
Strain loading contents of short chest THORAX
Tailored fragments for pagan IDOLATER
To split hairs can upset something ground-breaking nit-pick
Two spells of illness, between which a complete shift TURNABOUT
Unsubtle alternative to the key ingredient in fried fish, in metric weight battering ram
When embarrassment becomes evident, initially? at first blush