The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 24540 - May 18, 2010

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... finances former PM's country seat almost entirely EXCHEQUER
... worried both sides in court battle WATERLOO
Anorak needed to stagger outside quietly after monsoon? TRAINSPOTTER
Children surrounding river creature with jagged teeth SERRATED
Code-breaker cut down in regional capital TURIN
Crazy clubs of importance in school COCKEYED
Exhaust not allowed on river OUTWEAR
Family member in province teaches regularly NIECE
Favourable plot replacing knight with French nobleman CONDUCIVE
Fencing using part of broken door KENDO
Fine a silk dealer ultimately ignored ... AMERCE
Housework leader of chars divides well, having list SPRINGCLEANING
Kindly chap, extremely likeable ... GENTLE
Molten matter runs into centre, beginning to endanger grubs LARVAE
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Movie featuring two enlisted men GIGI
Neutrality endlessly complex in women? True, originally NONINVOLVEMENT
Noble start to composition written on ship BARONESS
Note Pavarotti, for example, articulated? TENNER
Novel support over right to enter naval base BOOKREST
Office manager showing tension after motorway journey? POSTMISTRESS
Olde-worlde article interposed in sequence of cards QUAINT
Secured during 5, good European camping requisite RIDGEPOLE
Song by woman beheaded in Asian city MANDALAY
Take a risk — improperly use past clue? Not us SPECULATE
Time to interrupt a course and mount an offensive ATTACK
Travel to free house at last RIDE
Water flowing from Italian river to one rising in England? POTOMAC
Way, some say, to provide spiritual nourishment MANNA