The Times - Cryptic - Club Monthly 20089 - February 1, 2008

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A little water in Quebec getting round old tide gate ABOITEAU
Briefly discontinue mixture of oil and of benzene derivatives QUINOIDAL
Crumbs and fish given to poor nun? IDECLARE
Dear Anne Hathaway, this is a large nightjar CHUCKWILLSWIDOW
Diamonds help us to produce crosses DSOS
Dropping front of robe, truly formal and diaphanous VEILY
Duke hoots, adjusting a claim about certain feet DOCHMIACAL
Fans surrounding learner, fifty years old, once hockey starts BULLYOFFS
Fast runner not completely bad in competition EMULOUS
Foreign exchange putting francs in shredders, perhaps FORFEX
Greek painter has one of his characters seized by father of twenty three ZEUXIS
Hitch up hoki with tail flipping HOIK
Junior gathers woefully bad spicy blossom JULYFLOWER
Language of atolls and key separated from Hawaii by busy place DHIVEHI
Liberal pack leader with forked object goes to river for freshwater fish LAKELAWYER
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More than half of hasty, temporary dam SUDD
Multiplication of organs is needed, otherwise lives protected by Master of Surgery CHORISM
Muse on carbon, fossil fuel being rejected CLIO
Quail eating chestnut and mostly foul wild herb COWCHERVIL
Run back into action once untwisted DETORTED
Russian impresario raised support before introduction of Vivien Leigh in play DIAGHILEV
Sailor and I question Arabic night visitor's name TARIQ
See mass of literary poet of Northern Italian dialect LOMBARDIC
Soviet politician burying group in low volume MOLOTOV
Strap on Scot's boot with hasp wrung in twist SPURWHANG
Unable to read chapter after beer, three over the eight? ALEXIC
Wandering Zulu left a group of flat-leaved plants LUZULA
War cries backing Isle of Man with festive note ALALAGMOI
Weird Scots right inside the Spanish drain ELDRITCH