The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 24284 - July 22, 2009

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And who is going round abroad making least noise? QUIETEST
Book an outlaw BAN
Bound to be in need of money STRAPPED
Choral work excited teen composer MASSENET
Comedian not OK with snake or rodent JERBOA
Contributor to Egyptian assertiveness? NASSER
Drink old port RYE
Get to an open stretch of water REACH
Herod perhaps tempted at first to have poet beheaded TETRARCH
Hooligan in Paris hospital stopping quickly APACHE
I'd grass on other informers, by the way ROADSIGNS
Melville's narrator has mile to swim ISHMAEL
Notice saying "Playground Construction" SEESAW
One playing in street or foreman going round outside ORGANGRINDER
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One who believes in termination of daylight robbery THEIST
Party line beats low spirits DOLDRUMS
Prime number, perhaps, is visible on hat SHOWSTOPPER
Rarely ill-natured about death SURPASSINGLY
Reform calls DROPSIN
Saint Henry penning epilogue for author STENDHAL
Sally is wrong about coming first RETORT
Selling up, one has to clear out, but not yet LATER
Spa not having first claim ARROGATE
Spirits provided by good innkeepers GHOSTS
Substance taken by king in tower is supplied by doctor REGISTRAR
Toad, not Sprat, is to chew the fat NATTER
Twenty-four grains or girl with third of that PENNYWEIGHT
Twice each year leave capital PAGOPAGO