The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 24404 - December 9, 2009

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Accountant's to reveal Conservative's hidden source of income CASHCOW
American school trip HIGH
Back-up troops check for mortars REINFORCEMENTS
Dog track provides food CURRY
Earthy expression used endlessly by Descartes for one TERRENE
Express newspaper pursues female telling story FLYINGSCOTSMAN
Fail to consume routine milky sweetener LACTOSE
Fashion clothes a confident Scottish girl needed for work TREASUREISLAND
Inside food store he's keeping a place for game birds PHEASANTRY
Life's like that in French castle I've restored CESTLAVIE
Looking, say, to accept a principle of the Chinese EYING
Mean, heartless fellow CHAP
Naturally one's not given such a mouthful FALSETEETH
No longer stocking fish? That sounds incongruous OUTOFPLACE
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Obtain new form of shelter HAVEN
One harassing people dwelling in hills TORMENTOR
One hesitates to give sign of victory before joining battle WAVERER
Part is technically far too much for performer ARTISTE
Poet has wife followed by hired assassin WHITMAN
Provokes drunken tinker unnecessarily NEEDLESSLY
Recorded bulk of crew mostly in one day WEIGHED
Spicy mixtures cooked in E Madras MARINADES
Temporary accommodation for gold seekers shortly coming to the East End? OLYMPICVILLAGE
Thirty seconds to leave island, seeing killer whale ORCA
Though short of time, check old sound system AUDIO
US actor looks different in this garment SURCOAT
Where transatlantic travellers might go for award TONY
Woman priest's tied to a stake, along with leader of heretics ELISABETH