The Times - Cryptic - This puzzle is from 1961 as the puzzle 25,762 is the first championship qualifying puzzle and is available as a pdf for online contestants. - April 16, 2014

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"_____ is a great matter, I was a coward on ____" (Henry IV Pt 1) INSTINCT
A gale's perpetually blowing on the river WINDRUSH
A swipe at Lord's is positively incandescent! BATSWING
A weeper's the thing when it serves the purpose AVAILS
Calls a halt to the gate-crashers CHALLENGES
Dead Sea fruit sapling? ASHPLANT
Did the audience get all steamed up in it? SHOWBOAT
Flag-waving or head-shaking perhaps WIGWAG
Goody, goody, -- a cracker! BONBON
Implying free entertainment when it's signed? TREATY
Interval music ENTRACTE
Keats saw many goodly ones on his travels STATES
Line for a dowered bride? DOTTED
Look – now and then and up and down SEESAW
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Not that the cavalryman got the wind up! CORNET
Regretful comment of the inebriated on seeing the deer? WAPITI
Requirement for nursery tea essential in adults CLEANHANDS
So superlative, large size and incombustible ASBESTOS
Tailor's assistant is much improved FITTER
The dark is deadly NIGHTSHADE
The French make a day of it BASTILLE
To come to grips with the enemy again is very fruity REENGAGE
Used the first person singular EGOTISED
Wager at the local? Very doggy! BARBET
Well, what else would this chap be? HUSBANDMAN
What a bind for the dresser! SWATHE
What boots it to bring about destruction? SABOTAGE
What the gate-crasher can't do SHOWCARD