The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 25672 - January 1, 2014

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A diamond dropped from hand at first in compound — that's insoluble REDLEAD
Acknowledgment about chair for speaker RECEIPT
Anti-trade winds that once parted people from their land ATTAINDER
Appeal without end, one intended to deceive tail-ender CHARLIE
Bishop's attire? Possibly BIRETTA
Check in one enticing dog LURCHER
Complete or just a bit, it's good for you WHOLESOME
Crime that one's papers may confirm — one paper in particular IDENTITYTHEFT
Defensible position Intelligence pitched between two heights without delay FORTHWITH
Drier, so closed source of water — one litre left! TOWEL
Drink caught up with Dad CUPPA
Duck scold, flipped into one river briefly, then another MERGANSER
Fourth class neatly presented? TYPED
Free-for-all in absence of security in cargo areas? NOHOLDSBARRED
Full-back beaten by the ball made to look bad DEFACED
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Good to be seen in serious part of funeral, perhaps DIRGE
Heads off from the glen with a dreamy girl HELENA
I wondered idly what may be on tonight EIDERDOWN
Leaving ceremony is boring, girl admits LASTRITES
Mary is crazy, old Ann is backward MADONNA
Mathematician's sad secret decoded DESCARTES
Pair of females get wet DAMPEN
Part of kit engineers have to feel confident about BERET
Promptness with which a poem receives review ALACRITY
Sides of glass put in the wrong way round in prisoner transport TUMBREL
Sort of meal for escapee? INFLIGHT
Tinned meat suppressing son's hiccup SPASM
Tweeted about hard grind GNASH
What schoolmaster does, not one to change TRANSFORM
Woman heading away from chapel ETHEL