The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28148

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A bishop trapped by two men in tangled vegetation CHAPARRAL
Ailment dispatching commanding officer? How awful! UGH
Beginner abandons most demanding challenge EVEREST
Carefully considering one’s options, unlike Charles the Fat, say? THINKING
Catcher of worms, as the dodo was? early bird
Children resulting from affair? ISSUE
Coppers accepting a new punishment PENANCE
Daughter in wig perhaps, having dropped an E? DRUGGED
Drugs making you a prima donna? HEROINE
Examined closely, as swordfish might be? GRILLED
Goliath running wild, inspiring northern hatred LOATHING
Head office exploiting position in Barbican perhaps housing estate
Holy man in French island uprising ELI
Lawgiver playing part in generalissimo’s escape MOSES
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Layabout upset by occasionally chaotic dancers BOLSHOI
Lusty deb drooled horribly red-blooded
Music-maker’s poetic invocation of lover in recital? OBOE
Possibly bitter about China supporter befriender
Response to expulsion by university admitting not so much bless you
Revival of addict, back with second award RESUSCITATION
S for sovereign? head of state
Seemed happy moving south — but deluded MISLED
Sinister Tory lord returning at start of year CREEPY
Spot man in house holding bomb? On the contrary PIMPLE
The Speaker’s faction expressed their disappointment? SIGHED
Those curious poker yarns scoundrel initially concocted nosy parkers
Top-class teacher having a lie-in? ABED
Unpromising areas in which son finds things to eat DESSERTS