The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 24894 - July 6, 2011

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A Child of Our Time TIM
A lot of effort to put on most important musical piece DONKEYWORK
At home during quiet time MINUTE
Be in hot city BATH
Begin one's career being truly excellent ticket seller STARTOUT
Boston Tea Party transport CHARIOT
But time may give one such an idea THOUGHT
Carry me in private room on end of first carriage DEPORTMENT
Final line from golf club banning wife EDGE
Hard to starve, having threshed this? HARVEST
Historian's line on Miss Compton-Burnett LIVY
I can't stop talking about tea party attendee taking punch CHATTERBOX
It's at the day's end chap mostly comes in drunk TWILIGHT
Main line of railway following a route that avoids centre of Slough ARTERY
Man wanting help installing computer connection HUSBAND
Meaningful omen even though I am unable to follow it SIGNIFICANT
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Name a river of Portugal, not the US TAG
Narrow and short object THIN
No more vital words initially ignored in court EXTINCT
One drawing together Conservative, far from Liberal, men CONSTRICTOR
Percy avoided old city, returning to busy area HOTSPOT
Presenter given a new task when finishing early ANCHOR
Promise to marry girl broken by nonsense BETROTH
Pub deejay keeping off the spirits INN
Quick, I can finally reveal it's about information INTELLIGENT
Reached small river inside that cave GROTTO
Shocked as the magi were, comprehending portent at last? STARTLED
Spooner's confused about one term for an insidious killer POISONER
Test, we hear, devised for lover SWEETHEART
Uncouth man going topless in public OUT
Without much confidence getting another answer quite futilely TIMIDLY
Wrongly damning coup likely to succeed UPANDCOMING