The Times - Cryptic - This puzzle was one of three correctly solved in a total of less than 60 mins by 20 of the 24 competitors in the Grand Final of the 2014 Times Crossword Championship - December 17, 2014

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A microlight constructed following step-by-step instructions ALGORITHMIC
As an example, coming over to welcome a doctor from West Africa GABONESE
Bonus pool set up for elite TOPDRAWER
Callous photos which give you the shivers COLDSNAPS
Close to bedtime, drink knocked back, old lady closed book ENIGMA
Despot, fool and traitor swapping tips SATRAP
Ecosystem mercifully preserving old kind of wheat EMMER
Exhibition of eyewear finishing early SPECTACLE
Express satisfaction over new dental work CROWN
Firm's criminal eating on the move CASTIRON
Ghostly guillotined nobleman starts to intimidate everyone EERIE
Hour after end of argument I'm in pain and upset THROW
I know male jockeys of effeminate appearance WOMANLIKE
Irish county banning tail lights? OFFAL
Limitless junk languishes in drawers, perhaps UNDIES
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Medicine can relieve symptoms over time TINCTURE
Met ten cows heaving country cart about NEWSCOTLANDYARD
Moscow ready to cause friction with the French RUBLE
Most improbable stories about large cat — about to be dismissed TALLEST
Old boring person who's bound, on paper, to be smart SOIGNEE
Outgoing, unlimited texts prove we're indiscreet, ultimately EXTROVERT
Random beer with a Conservative ALEATORY
Rowdy lot in cell Not half! MOB
Shy wife and husband pictured drinking Vermouth WITHDRAWN
Swimmers of the future? ROE
They're pink following sweltering jogs LEFTWINGERS
What hookers do is legal, as has been stated before SOLICIT
Which involves getting a round in but hoping not to buy it? RUSSIANROULETTE
Will hollow pill provide relief? PLEASE
Wrongly seeing red, don't put foot down TRODDEN