The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 25731 - March 11, 2014

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Despicable people, a hundred in total SCUM
Dress is made to cover people's underwear COMBINATIONS
Edible tuber antelope buried in deep hole PIGNUT
Energy the old girl used to secure good aid to vision EYEGLASS
Exploratory accounts left financial area upset ANALYTIC
Finding acceptance in Kiev is an endorsement VISA
Freed slave originally kept by a French friar UNSTUCK
Holly, perhaps, beginning to investigate Roman law ILEX
Horse friend o' the compiler briefly owned at first PALOMINO
Inhibition making us end conversation abruptly? HANGUP
Like some racehorses beaten after short punt's misfired? UNPLACED
Meeting of Tory and Liberal in underground hollow CONCLAVE
Minister's hint about deserter CURATE
Old peasant in poem, not originally a native of Kirkwall ORCADIAN
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One uses subterfuge to infiltrate retreating troops EMPLOYER
One's no obstacle in the meteorologist's line ISOBAR
One's spotted a practitioner of chicanery, some say CHEETAH
Part of river gigs miss regularly ISIS
Posh cultivated air of old philosopher given time inside ARISTOCRATIC
Prior's raillery that throws bishop imbibing port ANTERIOR
Producing responses ultimately for the voice REACTIVE
Reformed characters in Cairo meeting Descartes, for example GEOMETRICIAN
Royal opinion about end of robe with fur trimming ERMINED
Sacrifice made by enchanting woman finally changing doctor HECATOMB
Scandal over submissions of accounts in fish market? BILLINGSGATE
Steps taken to provide a bar in her area HABANERA
Uncouth old men admitted by mistake BOORISH
Welshman, half turning, anticipating chief's investigation RESEARCH