The Times - Cryptic - The final 2012 Times National Crossword Championship Qualifying Puzzle No 3 with full details of how to enter, will appear tomorrow Wednesday, May 16. Solution Thursday, May 24. - May 15, 2012

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Clues Answers
Awful clue, right? Continuing source of pain ULCER
Barely succeeded in project JUST
Blunt statement in house encountered with sorrow HOMETRUTH
Coins, including gold sovereign, showing mythical creatures CENTAURS
Competent work by lawyer creating friendly attitude GOODWILL
Conceited as I am, one way and another IMMODEST
Critic of faith and cant is cool when converted ICONOCLAST
Dance viewed as a kind of puzzle JIGSAW
Endlessly ask who was the monarch SHAH
Exceptionally large bar that can absorb impact of crash BUMPER
Following leaders of army fighting the enemy, right? AFTER
Game on TV in which strikers are contained MATCHBOX
In old-fashioned way, continue to pay attention to judge RECKON
In place for laundry, had brief employment, carrying water? WASHHOUSE
Judges having reached conclusion, her work begins RUTH
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Love you declared in short text, dear PRECIOUS
Mutual actions revised party line INTERPLAY
Nail Conservative repeatedly in part of US as dishonest puppet PINOCCHIO
Nonsensical statement accepted by chair is his mistake IRISHISM
Not a nice location to cross STYX
Novel, ie it's a P and O saga APASSAGETOINDIA
One's observed in talisman a magnetic quality CHARISMA
Regular publication with little impact, we hear WEEKLY
Rook and duck concealed by another bird — and another HERON
Sermon's beginning with characteristic passage STRAIT
Son having no complaints? Excellent SWELL
Studied pun that's funny, without a doubt UNDISPUTED
Wanting fare suspended by railway HUNGRY
Where critic may easily sit in judgment ARMCHAIR