The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 23986 - August 7, 2008

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A couple of elements once combined in strong drink FIREWATER
As a rule, control natural water supply? Hear, hear! REIGN
Audacious, having just had a close shave BAREFACED
Call for quiet, not in a bellow SHOUT
Close association with French arranged in treaty FRATERNITY
Covering for shoulders and head CAPE
Donkey heading West in tunnel BURROW
Drink repeatedly taken - not rum? USUAL
Form of fear that can never last for very long NEOPHOBIA
Gave another relation plenty, back in debt? RETOLD
Go for expert to find solution CRACK
Heroic warrior not well, beset by pains ACHILLES
In cooking field, primarily a male CHEF
In prosecution of suit, judicial craft? COURTSHIP
Instrument for communication, a line with bad phone service ALPENHORN
Leader of company searching for hostile takeover CONQUEST
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Like clubs for a young person MINOR
Like some music about king that's not extravagant FRUGAL
Lock and key upset lag DELAY
Lover of queen emerging from protective cover AMOUR
Name used in House, or if one Conservative is expressing respect HONORIFIC
Nitpicking editor to be critical about and irritate PEDANTRY
One of the little people seen in brambles, oddly enough BABE
Political document used by Times, but not Financial Times WHITEPAPER
Pronounce, in other words, about drink's property REALESTATE
Religious work the speaker does ICON
Special winks, sign for mother and daughter, say KINSWOMEN
This means getting excited about start of undertaking ENTHUSIASM
This vicar converted a record holder ARCHIVIST
Use library as author BORROW
Within metaphor is making pithy statement APHORISM
Wordsworth's daffodils next to a leafy plant HOSTA