The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 25401 - February 18, 2013

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Clues Answers
Almost consider pocketing £50 note? WELLNIGH
Back from France? It's meant mixing drinks here ESTAMINET
Be rough in tumble with lovable person? NEIGHBOUR
Be wounded, impressing saints in heaven BLESSED
Bird seed is tasty for starters PIPIT
Cast finished on the radio THREW
Chocolate, perhaps, for bookish father BROWN
Container that's very small but bottomless TIN
Cry havoc, ultimately using maximum effort CALLOUT
Device that's extremely beneficial when filling spaces EMBLEM
Enchantress flipping coin captured crank ECCENTRIC
French dressing required? Not so! AUNATUREL
French joiner recruited for plum job? That may keep strikers in line PICKETING
Gambler with no heart required drink BEER
Helper supporting child without reserve TOTALLY
Indians get here, penning a new chapter COMANCHE
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Islamic fundamentalists beheaded by cold brute CALIBAN
Literary work by Hardy? The Turn of the Screw? OLIVERTWIST
Making more people opposed to Darwinism? PROCREATION
Men may be told to stand thus for a piece of cake EASY
Nothing in bucket before a game PELOTA
Old region right to leave metal — one with lead in abundance IONIA
One doesn't need friends, one needs to be side-splitting LONER
Pan with top in place SKILLET
Playwright covers first half of game somewhere in London ORPINGTON
Put questions to short IT guy, say, in suit CATECHISE
Scottish philosopher going north to avoid capital bird EMU
Thug regularly sheltered by mother — a little dope? DATUM
TV presenters confusing Lenin with Karl Marx initially LINKMEN
Virgin in fine fettle holding horse for reporter NEWSHOUND
Wear and tear round object RAIMENT
What whirling dervishes did in comical tragedy? GYRATED