The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 23807 - January 11, 2008

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Agricultural work unfavourable in various times TILLAGE
Application gets prisoner money allowance CONCENTRATION
Betrayed in trick, getting furious inside CHEATEDON
Claimant spoke, stirring tea-leaves compulsively KLEPTOMANIACS
Confession of friend in Muslim leader's office IMAMATE
Daggers concealed by vile boys going around OBELI
Dreadful choir types who only render lip service? HYPOCRITES
Effect of surface damage certain to occur after a time ERASURE
Engineers attending vehicle that springs back in reverse? RETRACTOR
English meat isn't cooked in French restaurant ESTAMINET
Fingered material FELT
Flattery to get round unemotional, inwardly hard teacher SCHOOLMARM
Game plan is not working out for Midlands town LEAMINGTONSPA
Individual celebrity, say, in Texas LONESTARSTATE
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Like some gases put in to flush out last of badgers INERT
Manager's heading off to a Glyndebourne production OPERA
Pollution reduction? Put my record in DEFILEMENT
Run into difficulty that may be a bit of a pain PRICKLE
Specimen test - appeal if not getting top grade EXAMPLE
State control of economy? Trick is to get in money DIRIGISME
Subsistence workers to receive pound - is that a joke? PLEASANTRY
Superficial brightness of drunk's noticed SHEEN
The man with newspaper in lift HEFT
Thief's accomplice receives excellent porcelain FAIENCE
Tread right back, having taken enough TRAMPLE
Usual disaster admitting man, heartless old boy ALUMNUS
What sounds like nasty aspect MIEN
Wife - troublemaker or doormat? WIMP