The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 23799 - January 2, 2008

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... but an Irish painter may be rasher BACON
Article, so to speak, by butcher's double LOOKALIKE
Beauties about to dip into Latvian's writings BELLESLETTRES
Boy eighteen's lack of identification around East? NOEL
Caught lying low, having been told off earlier? CHIDDEN
Collected spades a little person owned SELFPOSSESSED
English fellow rejecting mother's moral code ETHOS
Even honest dog breeders often do it SELLSOMEONEAPUP
Fuss about name written round painting TONDO
Game a cleric is addicted to ... VENISON
Get into print? Damned if I do! PUBLISH
Hearing of duty, changes course TACKS
In effect it antagonised a primordial god TITAN
In which, theoretically, capital is spoken of PRINCIPLE
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Incomplete spraying device found beside a shrub SYRINGA
Inspector loses head, arresting Liberal barracker HECKLER
It could sharpen the nose of a hard worker GRINDSTONE
Make every effort, even stopping Lorna's defeat DOONESLEVELBEST
Mogul's head displayed outside old shelter POTENTATE
Not, however, one of Hines's titles EARLDOM
Person inclined to embrace one of three basic skills? LEARNER
Practised catches in tall grass REHEARSED
Removes clerk initially paid less when working DISPLACES
Riots ruined most of course! It makes you spit! ROTISSERIE
Seaman who has a pipe with a mate? BOATSWAIN
Son welcomed by primate for recess APSE
Writer's rejected main work AESOP
Yours truly's point, at first, regarding painting technique IMPASTO