The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 24612 - August 10, 2010

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Cold and exhausted? Ask for assistance CALLIN
Customary practice is adding aromatic herb to pilau at the end USAGE
Depiction of former Jamaican capital — note, not old PORTRAYAL
Earn roughly a thousand latching on to bygone novelist PASTERNAK
Exponent of military force POWER
Finish university with circle of people having lasting qualities ENDURING
Flora Macdonald, perhaps, transporting her lad nigh HIGHLANDER
Flying about INTHEAIR
Food including curry is regularly going to encourage growth NOURISH
Fool bums around at rear of block, with no legal force around NUMBSKULL
Get a sudden fear god's in charge PANIC
Greatest stout is brewed with malt, primarily UTMOST
Grimace when church pursues gain WINCE
Imagine missing a moving sign GEMINI
In the main, one may suck molar stem that's been fractured MAELSTROM
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Intimate deception, fine one by poet CONFIDANTE
It is run in Tripoli by Arabs LIBYA
Muse about everyone that is without work CALLIOPE
Novel where Pip leaves in the afternoon? EMMA
Novelist is taking the woman to club ISHERWOOD
One like Sam Spade sticks to house wine, ultimately GUMSHOE
Pair missing the French revolution? COUP
Relative having starchy food put on a stone CARBUNCLE
Small milky drinks could be not very good NOGREATSHAKES
Snoop around mostly private little wood SPINNEY
Sparkle of diamond, say, cut separately by foremost in London and Amsterdam GLEAM
Steal in the ears like a Dalek's voice? ROBOTIC
Stone finding brief application in rural county SAPPHIRE
What mate offers convoy's escort? COMPANIONSHIP
What's California eating before maize? CEREAL