The Times - Cryptic - This puzzle was solved within 60 mins by 43 of the 74 competitors in Heat One of the 2014 Times Crossword Championship - November 12, 2014

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Clues Answers
Appropriate touching? Not quite JUSTABOUT
Arty type worried about these crumbling AESTHETE
Castles bordering lake where birds gather ROOKERIES
Contemptible sailor caught boarding plane ABJECT
Cutting expenditure, English team get along together COEXIST
Engineers by depots supply set of pipes REEDSTOP
Game members unexpectedly take a cut RUMPSTEAK
Hamper speaker's arrest, heading off the French HECKLE
How band must play sooner or later INTIME
Hundred leaving for Rhode Island in holiday departure VARIATION
In company of doctor, beset by great worry AMONGST
Insist lock and key are brought up ASSERT
Last of cash placed in bank vault perhaps CHAMBER
Leader abandons summit team in row EIGHT
Make a move in the market maybe, to control warm clothing REINVEST
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Means of securing randy journalist? PRESSSTUD
Notes describing what set back gathering of harvest? SHEAF
Plain cake given new filling ENCLAIR
Present left with beam PORTRAY
Range, say, wherein mountaineer ultimately struggled STROVE
Revered barrister's opening in case BLEST
River, source of hock, unlimited wines? RHINE
Send up flowering plant discovered in gorge SATIRISE
Side of church, substantial all round FACET
Skills shown by men rotating platforms ROSTRA
Spectral piper playing something soft for late evening? CARPETSLIPPER
Stock, we agree, has to match up at base FUNDAMENTALLY
Such people prefer to support article THELIKE
Where file may be needed right away ONTHENAIL
Without word of doubt, judge put up with less formality FREER