The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 25606 - October 15, 2013

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Clues Answers
Advance, holding attack: one may fall? COMRADE
Bird looking intently across lake STARLING
Business person's number of years on the books AGENT
Chinese food with 50% horse revealed by study CONGEE
Courage to get gold or silver, as you might say? METTLE
Exceptional men I regard with awe ultimately? Not our police! GENDARMERIE
Exploiter using mean trick, first to last USER
Fellow carries gun? It's a habit GARMENT
Goes through what batsman scores against number of deliveries RUNSOVER
Government of cruel person, not at first upsetting yours truly REGIME
Host will collect a coat MAC
In favour of having locks —- they should make residents very secure FORTRESSES
Lengthen piece of writing started by publicist PROTRACT
Measure gold in extraterrestrial debris METEOR
Moving away from the centre, Conservative held to be leftist? RADICAL
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Objective of soldier getting in close LOGICAL
Office worker taking long time — intellectual and volatile TEMPERAMENTAL
Old lover making reference to being sexy? EXCITING
One getting on in classification process that should be fair for everybody RATIONING
One going for run in European country, English person waiting for match? FIANCEE
Person coining it is wicked type, not saint, you gathered MONEYER
Presented nothing new in old-fashioned wrapping DONATED
Reform? Measure up, engaging in that difficult task CHALLENGE
Soldier, say, cutting short reign — a leader of republicans REGULAR
The bosses start to mess about, restricting an outstanding person MANAGEMENT
This operator going wrong could get tongue snarled? DENTALSURGEON
Tree in a poetic region not cold LIME
Veteran with nothing left to pass on OLDIE
What might suggest Garbo's place in the theatre? DRESSCIRCLE
Woman making old historian lose his head IVY