The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 25,219 - Jan 14 2011

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As I say, somehow crossing river in ancient kingdom ASSYRIA
Awful deeds and situations offering no way out DEADENDS
Celebrate about rise in king's payment to serving man SHILLING
Court champion dined with king repeatedly FEDERER
Cover using precaut­ionary phrase, in a word INCASE
Crewman holding all the cards? Just one person's DECKHAND
Cut when rewritten HEWN
Figure in plane caught in old muddle OCTANGLE
Friend that puts king in hopeless position MATE
Hide from vicious king SKIN
Inauspicious jingle? ADVERSE
King at Hereford, in part to collect harvest INGATHER
King of kings, many said foolishly, put on a little weight OZYMANDIAS
King who used rackets to secure a score of titles BILLIEJEAN
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King's names for religious reformer MARTIN
King, for example, and brave jester FACECARD
Land being consumed by fire ALIGHT
Make king take rook, perhaps, then knight CROWN
Old king putting drink back in lists of options MENELAUS
Part of Somalia or other country in Africa MALI
Primate includes a bishop in blessing BABOON
Pulse is fast — over one-fifty LENTIL
Rabble without love for cruel king HEROD
Representatives who should become less narrow-minded TRAVELLERS
See 12 LUTHER
Some of our kings and English duke died in conflicts EDWARDS
Sport needing extra time in later part of day EVENTING
Spy setter wandering in shopping area BONDSTREET