The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1998

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A cute, unusual, pistol, originally — might it be filled with gunpowder? TEACUP
A spirited author? GHOSTWRITER
Adequate swimmer gulping oxygen? FAIRISH
Asian influence ultimately in holy text KOREAN
Attempt to keep tail cool TRENDY
Begin to accommodate first of undergraduates in royal house STUART
Bronzed skin fading on a trip in Argentina? TANGOING
Cap half on in swimming pool LIDO
Country also in a mess LAOS
European payment taken on the phone? CZECH
Fashionable, how one might take one's gin? with-it
Flower in Agadir, I see IRIS
Fruit boy found behind barrier DAMSON
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Hot inside particular nook NICHE
Huge name, gargantuan to some extent MEGA
Item for breakfast, baloney WAFFLE
Journalists in Dorset I fancy EDITORS
Quite beautiful PRETTY
Relative in European resort, by the sound of it? NIECE
Reportedly, I saw a sight! EYESORE
River circled by pilot, I gathered, in capital city TRIPOLI
Talk: problem in Persian, for example? CHITCHAT
Theorist in nineties, surprisingly EINSTEIN
Tory footballer? right-winger
Various roasted nuts, including last of peanuts ASSORTED
Version of Tosca somewhere in Berkshire ASCOT