The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 24417 - December 24, 2009

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Abroad, what fills role? I'm floored PARQUET
Bearing her absence? MATERNITYLEAVE
Cry freely, raising volume at end of tirade EMOTE
Did they struggle in atelier, perhaps? PRERAPHAELITES
Fertiliser feeble if tinned? STAMEN
Fit to cover miles in walk AMBLE
Given long line to erect, am struggling OCTAMETER
Go into the middle of America — it's not cold ENTER
I had left range without compare LIKEN
In parts, poem is about one jocular lawgiver EPISODIC
In place of darkness finding east a puzzle EREBUS
Keepin' on round one bend HAIRPIN
Leading man I don't cast DOMINANT
More unnerving to see one strangled by ivy CREEPIER
Not entirely versatile shrub PROTEA
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One could barely finish Hamlet BODKIN
One hand-picked foreign leader accepts our country in recession OAKUM
Prayer to have old leader released from confinement ORISON
Refuse to admit scruffy beard DEBAR
Remarkable surplus of leisure wear PLUSFOURS
Roughly sprawled, despite wearing this on boot, up here? SCAFELLPIKE
Rudder control commonly made of wood ELM
Scientific instrument bathed city in a flickering light ASTROLABE
Soft bed for contestant PLAYER
Sometimes there's nobody taking turn round porch EVERANDANON
Starts on free range egg? Has not to FRO
Terrified by a street fight involving us as subject AWESTRUCK
This may take the Mickey out of subject of play MOUSETRAP
Tricked, and no mistake, in hearing meteorite CHONDRITE
Was first to spot such a mysterious band SPECKLED