The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 24480 - March 9, 2010

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A stupid wretch, paper boss being overshadowed ADUMBRATED
About a hundred in burial place in underground vault CATACOMB
Amount of newspaper content that's fiction — worry concealed LINAGE
Annoyed when there's one letter to change — covered with fluid IRRIGATED
Bright hunk, not quiet, one with common sense LUMINOUS
City person put outside dance being half cut BEIJING
Compassion less important than status UNDERSTANDING
Compensation for those at risk from new source of infection, one contained in time DANGERMONEY
Conservative with secret once told off CHIDDEN
Drumbeat — fine hit FLAM
Earth — it's dug vigorously, allowing in maximum ventilation DRAUGHTIEST
Girl with something possibly above knee? Big trouble! MAYHEM
Harmless drug being concealed in cap TAM
I leave after end of game EGO
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Man dies out in wild where many adventurous explorers go? MOUNTAINSIDE
Man getting married? A mere cipher, it's said FIGARO
Mother and son and I sitting in church that's run badly MALADMINISTER
Platform outside for church composer STANFORD
Poem in English — nothing good in what you see here ECLOGUE
Rule with deception leading to turmoil regularly CONTROL
Saint leading religious service, no good as a story-teller STEVENSON
Scot maybe keeps outside evil African city IBADAN
Show not running with foul actors being awkward COLOURFAST
Some stuff in a loose-leaf binding FINAL
Stubborn dope keeps on the move? Quite the opposite INTRANSIGENT
The best energy-containing stuff CREAM
The sort of support a nut may get HEADREST
Time all off? NOON