The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28070

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Clues Answers
Abundance of banality? More work required, with one change CORNUCOPIA
Assistant forgoing record tax DUTY
Attractive forests are finally encountering axes SEXY
Called, cancelling start of general preparatory period run-up
Catalogue containing old book by political operator LOBBYIST
Circulating damp polluted air in strange plant-holder TERRARIUM
Clubs depressed bridge team, not the brightest people? CLOWNS
Deft clue I recast is misleading DECEITFUL
Excellent sewer sequestering carbon in damaging fluid acid rain
Gloomy corner church artist has come in to draw SEPULCHRAL
Green spots in food store leading to no serious comment PLEASANTRY
Henry is working to block agent, backing mind-control HYPNOSIS
Letter from nine written in reverse IOTA
Lifeless hair? There’s no spring in it DEADLOCK
Note rise of US writer they condemned as a mere beginner NEOPHYTE
Clues Answers
Party goer regularly finding the way out? DOOR
Pencil marking circling a line rejected as nonsense BLAH
Pick source of radioactivity on particle ELECTRON
Picture I get by removing a name IMAGE
Place to gamble with mature, Damascene conversion amusement arcade
Poet, fat and benevolent, neglecting daughters LARKIN
Queen and King tucking into quiet drink SHERRY
Runs off after snatching coat, to be precise split hairs
Small picture that’s reduced by 50 per cent in album unfortunately THUMBNAIL
Something burning up oxygen in measuring device METEOR
Unexpected gains in turn decline for spells windfall profits
Vegetable, cold and difficult to chew CHARD
Very much forgetting day in the remote past EARLY
Waters garden bordering river in curved shape HORSESHOE
Way of working will fill a second book AMOS