The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 23049 - August 8, 2005

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Adroit teacher taking time off to give severe warning READTHERIOTACT
Bit of a hump teenagers get in any number UMPTEEN
Cheeky lawyers humbled as one fine is dropped BAREFACED
Departure of one wearing medal GOING
Docile sort of voice PASSIVE
Forty vocalising round piano in bar EXPEL
Greek philosopher caught in sort of tank SCEPTIC
Grounded flier behind rival EMULATE
Guaranteed credit if English abroad CERTIFIED
High-spirited time on Blue Nile trip EBULLIENT
Island storing large quantity of dry goods for cash COPECKS
Left in charge without key, being non-clerical LAIC
Like a measure taken by a military commander usually ASAGENERALRULE
Love poetry has a following abroad OVERSEA
Marriageable woman in gaol not healthy BRIDE
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Mature priest at first has nothing French about him RIPEN
Not a manly grace, alas, found in professional person CLERGYMAN
One who plays to the old king TOYER
Parking with a police car PANDA
Peripatetic teacher finds realist to convert ARISTOTLE
Pointedly snub in a cathedral city ACUTELY
Reason for Macavity's lack of presence ALIBI
Resentment about troubles of rogues in fiction PICARESQUE
Stand for religious education today REPRESENT
Street of the hack - could be Swift FLEET
Tease, catching sister with unusual riddle CONUNDRUM
Thick mat DULL
Vocally damnable turn about in opera RUDDIGORE
Went quickly back to class to rehearse NARRATE
With due deference to the compiler, we want a leader here PACESETTER