The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28214

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Apropos hoax, laugh, oddly reflecting “we’d give it a whirl!” hula hoop
Athlete, exhausted and quiet, having not qualified shot-putter
Bill after turning from gas is steep BATHE
Chance you usually won’t have material EARTHLY
Correspondent’s twenty-four hours in federal jail to finish pen friend
Demanding to have top lowered, is obliged OUGHT
Dicky this time is buttonholed by club bore WITHSTOOD
Ducks out of mounting charity events around university SUGAR
Extended call for peace involving a foreign ruler SHAH
Furniture item that now needs repair WHATNOT
Game personnel in industrial heartland RUHR
Group of countries meeting slight problem separate UNHITCH
I say ring for the blessed commander! HALOGEN
In agreement lasting sixty seconds, dissent’s beginning of one mind
Launches into reason for 27? OPENS
Maybe miss a year’s events, all but the last ANNA
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N African king’s daughter embraced by goddess IDRIS
One often hailed as the new Verdi in California — British! CABDRIVER
Plant that’s excessively puffed up, but not round VERVAIN
Pops out with Laurel for numerous functions all-purpose
Put back in control, thanks primarily to our boss? REINSTATED
Romantic poet translated stories about the heart in Latin ROSSETTI
Scold, in time, one for cooking the books TERMAGANT
Shark fighters in Jaws: film replacing a western JETS
Short promotion by female that features in build-up HYPHEN
So the swine’s going back to work, protecting home and family OINKING
Swimmer, one you catch sleeping with leading lady Zander
Thus having easily passed acid test, getting buzz PHONE
Uproar about cryptics being cut back OUTCRY
Violent confrontation to experience: I’m slapped on the face AFTERSHAVE
What’s for watching you might think outside the box
Winger having edge on kid CHAFFINCH