The Times - Cryptic - Anniversary archive puzzle - No 15,000 - September 9, 1978 - November 7, 2011

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A hundred racers crash - not so common SCARCER
Alone I did it! SOLOPERFORMANCE
As such (with few exceptions) it resembles Feste's rain DAILYOCCURRENCE
Bad thing. Peter Painter held with prolixity LENGTHILY
But the runner-up fails to finish here ONTOP
But these days come before the end of this month EMBER
Child whose father was Bruce the cartoonist? BAIRN
Discover island about the first of the month CAPRI
Effect of rust in corn, or so one made out CORROSION
Gadget one can convert into Tell's mark APPLIANCE
Goodbye to the food I love CHEERIO
How old is it? FORTYEIGHTYEARS
If located, the Count of Monte Cristo's prison CHATEAU
Irish poet knocks up accommodation for guest SPAREROOM
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Long drink, 24 right away YARDOFALE
Made trifling objections when I lend two thousand dollars perhaps NIGGLED
Makes new plans to which counsel subscribes REDESIGNS
Running into bushranger Kelly, said prayers INTONED
Sing in the mountains - the same in grassland conversely YODEL
Slowly disappeared like Prospero's pageant FADED
So rough a diamond is not ignored UNCUT
Swords associated with pothooks HANGERS
Ten doctors of medicine show how many times it has appeared FIFTEENTHOUSAND
The biggest in appeal, we hear TENORBELL
What could be nicer as going with old lace? ARSENIC
Who lives in France? We're on this in England ALERT
Whose girl we left with an adoring cry HOSANNA
Wood's place in melodrama EASTLYNNE