The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 2597

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Academic supporting standard act of clemency PARDON
Accompanied by genetic material, on reflection AND
Artist backed retaining passion and support for clothes AIRER
Bird in fight, then another fight SPARROW
Biting insect not half minor in producing irritations TICKLES
Charitable club go off on a railway ROTARY
Copper pursuing woman’s slender and very strong HERCULEAN
Cricket side almost completely following the rules LEGAL
Detective’s assistant initially has to miss coming events? WATSON
Dieter’s concern, perhaps, consuming zero chocolate substitute CAROB
Flier cut back support for wing? RIB
Gentle contact is accepted by King and son KISS
Get away after outing Republican swindle SCAM
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His romances, rewritten for noblewoman MARCHIONESS
I will leave city chapel, upset, pedalling away here? cyclepath
Look, engaging in a lot of tricks in skiing event SLALOM
Mishandled American editor after one pair of lines ill-used
Mr. O’Casey chopped up tree SYCAMORE
News — it recalled activities, omitting nothing TIDINGS
No good energy in fossil fuel, clot CONGEAL
One subsequently coming round for each amateur? INEXPERT
Pain in the neck caught atop haystack? CRICK
Particle very much accepted by blokes MESON
Reason gendarmes initially seen in a street in Paris ARGUE
Slander linked to apartment, riverside feature MUDFLAT
Twice the helium and lithium unknown in molecule double helix