The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 25647 - December 2, 2013

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African very maligned? Not half SOMALI
Argument during Indian lunch TIFFIN
Centre of storm? Yes, it sounds like it EYE
Close song out, when music starts to die POPONESCLOGS
Combine to throw gang leader in lake MERGE
Comprehensive school's head showing signs of distress SWEEPING
Cutting miles, perhaps, dance round city complex MEGALOPOLIS
Derelict area half dark, but with fresh air, nonetheless TWILIGHTZONE
Draw attention to illegal drug in flimsy container SPOTLIGHT
Extremely strange inside an operating system, and not just for men UNISEX
First to use old coin made of gold and iron? GUINEAPIG
Initially too puny to be like country gentry TWEEDY
It may be natural to chew the fat GAS
Local serving beer no one inside rejected REGIONAL
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Male teachers are ahead, say, providing spice NUTMEG
National scandal ultimately Newham's undoing WELSHMAN
Offering protection from missile — like a shot! BULLETPROOF
One doesn't stop exam success, hesitation aside PASSERBY
Paid nothing to feed prisoner's best friend? LAPDOG
Player who may be employed on a sliding scale TROMBONE
Prescribed books used up for scrap SETTO
Shoot a number of rooks initially, wearing turned-up hat TENDRIL
Sound chap at edge of revolutionary circle? FELLOE
Town crier's double, one helping to deliver changes? RINGER
Urges fellow Liberals to see China EGGSHELL
Verbally subjected to coercion over northern city PRESTON
Very large college, variable in its education at first KINGSIZE
Worthless horse I caught beginning to eat chaff BADINAGE