The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 25123 - March 29, 2012

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and another that takes mostly tough line HARROW
BBC chief's floral tribute for audience REITH
Cabinet admits Labour unlikely to remain dispirited? CONSOLABLE
Careful to keep wine in case, unopened ATTENTIVE
Detective about to have a thug — hardened criminal — apprehended thus? CAUGHTREDHANDED
Dodgy character from Prague reportedly investigated CHECKEDOUT
Dope stuck in sandhills near southern headland DUNGENESS
Fellow would have hold over party HOEDOWN
From Renaissance artist rude works meeting resistance DURER
Goodness! Pastry concoction's terribly short of filling PIETY
I'll get absorbed in first half of book — good example of non-fiction BIOG
In spring, take run in the morning and dip SOURCREAM
Intermittent fondness for poetry ODES
Key player given freedom to move BACKSPACE
Lawbreaker initially breaking into house through back door ROBINHOOD
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Mate fled below at sea BEDFELLOW
Meaning to wander from place to place DRIFT
Nonsense put about by, for instance, Lloyd George? BILGE
Notice a chap's imbibing second drink ADAMSALE
Photograph couples in unconventional pose CLOSEUP
Plant boss needing capital ASTER
Ribbon is right on head of old dog, not tail ROSETTE
Scoffed as one school is mentioned ... EATEN
Spy film not successful at first SLEEPER
Stage actor takes instruction from me? COACH
Sweetie making heads turn BONBON
Uncivilised watering holes, popular around Aussie capital BARBARIAN
Unstable hut people abandoned UPTHEPOLE
Worker wearing captain's clothes SKIPANTS
Writer producing fliers Chinese-style? ERNESTHEMINGWAY