The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 24408 - December 14, 2009

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Capuchins are so, even without extremes of energy MONKEYISH
Case one may find when walking along the Strand? SEASHELL
Chapel? I'll wager the man's a lawyer! BETHESDA
Converts the smugly virtuous may claim to have? NOVICES
Disconcert peace promoters, at no time raising resistance UNNERVE
Great harpy originally restricting start of one's life BIOGRAPHY
Grub produced in granular varieties LARVA
Head of venerable university holding a dance VALSE
Inaugurate church with articles in Le Figaro LAUNCH
Kindly-intentioned source introducing import WELLMEANING
Laxative an old queen's given up SENNA
Lean actor protecting extremely unusual source of timber TULIPTREE
Like East Grinstead in relation to its tea gardens ANAGRAMMATICAL
Male parent's name for seductive singer SIREN
Newspaper's pension provision — Star's regular feature SUNSPOT
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Not a single country's accepting Michigan's proposals NOMINATIONS
Old European coin, one catalogued by English teacher EDUCATIONALIST
Old man going around with a herbivorous mammal PANDA
Outstanding feature by a friend or companion CHINA
Rarely in France a posh girl takes in university UNUSUALLY
Revolutionary rule again producing intermittent pain NEURALGIA
Soften up very little, covered by gun SWEETEN
Sort of surgery 2 put on current account? CARDIAC
State capital's fortune gained with effort from east LUCKNOW
Tug almost capsized? Not at all NAY
Typical welcome given to current fad AVERAGE
Warning giving rise to wariness CAUTION
Where Clementine's father dwelt, unknown to break the law CANYON
With which one may belatedly appreciate farm-worker's vision HINDSIGHT
Worker possibly lacking the ultimate in muscular power BEE