The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 24120 - January 12, 2009

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A lot of soldiers might be required to empty this biggest shell? OSTRICHEGG
Act a part, and run round back of hall to record song ROLEPLAY
Airport serving Laurel's Heath, perhaps? STANSTED
Announced possible end to a joust when the light fails NIGHTFALL
Ban a set of executive toys VETO
Composer's abandoning new act for "The Gamblers"? WAGER
Dog star or another heavenly body PLUTO
Domestic animals cross over the threshold? DOORSTEP
Dull hair interlinked? It could be slept on MATTRESS
Got over a dungeon refitting w ooden flooring TONGUEANDGROOVE
Idiot's just left in bed CLOT
Incline to stop living in what has been given GRADIENT
Like chapter finale to shift to a higher plane ASCEND
Make a running hitch? ELOPE
Mark in exam's perhaps too awful APOSTROPHE
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Once more broadcast about fuel REPEAT
One shouldn't start to hit a sleeping policeman HUMP
Painter allowed to pursue miraculous wedding scene CANALETTO
Perhaps team of sailors from Southern Ireland getting to Bordeaux might require this? CORKSCREW
Play with cast and a title, that's produced drippily in a cave STALACTITE
Regretted turning back couple that's ill-mannered RUDE
Serving up cream tea with sundae — male kids might have fun here AMUSEMENTARCADE
Showing leniency towards the French harangue TOLERANT
Spice girl seen around clubs MACE
Succeeded with edges, applying one quite small knitting manoeuvre SLIPSTITCH
Swap parts to disrupt arrangement SETUP
Unchanging football pools arrangement's concerning PERMANENT
Usual standard of opera finally falling NORM
Very eager to have things grand and tall and thin GREEDY
What's central to Drake's extraordinary drama? ARMADA