The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 25457 - April 24, 2013

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Affair may bring a regret when curtailed AMOUR
Blokes crack dishes CHAPPIES
British people will eat English fruit POMES
Candlestick with candle initially plunged into cake SCONCE
Coffee dealt with after being knocked over DECAF
Deacon is transformed by the man ordaining him maybe DIOCESAN
Dramatist could make thespian soar ARISTOPHANES
Earlier saint — relic of him in the monk's office? PRIORSHIP
Expression of surprise about one endlessly cunning sort of government MONARCHY
Famous Roman enchantress heartlessly getting men bowled over CICERO
Gland accounting for short line at bottom of face PANCREAS
Husband is allowed into country, permit being provided FRANCHISE
Insect to render vehicle unsteady, as Spooner would have it COCKROACH
It's a game when several across entries have letters missing at either end! LACROSSE
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Look at the bottom of stone step STAIR
Maybe not wearing a tie in the office will bring a rebuke DRESSINGDOWN
Religious books a canon may do without APOCRYPHA
Russian maiden and American bloke dated, admitting it MUSCOVITE
Sandy is so courageous GRITTY
Sort of tea Wally needs in the morning ASSAM
Substance body needs? It's almost a crime, mentioning it NIACIN
Talk about this person getting old? Your setter's full of fun! GAMESOME
Teacher-trainer possibly converted to lunatic ideas EDUCATIONALIST
To whom one might look for a good deed? SOLICITOR
Uncouth type when caught gets shy CHURL
What some News International journalists have, offering an excellent opportunity (1,5,2,3,3) APLACEINTHESUN
What starts with a musical do? SOLFA
Where reformer was condemned by some despicable people WORMS