Sardonic verse from diabolic lexicographer

by Martyn Crosby

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A.   Tory Apache confuses drug dealer (10)

B.   Modest hits reformed followers of movement to which
British Socialism is said to have been indebted (10)

C.   Foreshortens no amputated boneheads (7)

D.   Send on backward stop-watch (5)

E.   How old portent of change produces feel-good factor
(2,3,2,3,5)

F.   Wild white horse, without ire, could demonstrate
long ago (7)

G.   Language pattern study of racial groups? Cushioning
lets it resettle (16)

H.   Having merited Nirvana, he altruistically postpones
departure from renovated, initially very old, delapidated habitats. (11)

I.   Repressive irony turns around habit I get into when
replacing article (10)

J.   Unprepared, King led thereabout (8)

K.   Richard, initially taking 250, was, he would shortly
conclude, submitted again to cleansing process (8)

L.   Chatshows, when host quits, get plugs (5)

M.   All hear progovernment hitman upset plan for well-being,
living in harmony with nature (13,6,7)

N.   Backward-looking, turn restive about Roger`s turbulence
(13)

O.   Scrambled telegram picks up hundred about confused
phone oracle to assess brainwaves (20)

P.   Obscene to turn wooden peg, missing nothing (4)

Q.   Hard-of-hearing try pop rumbustiously for invisible
imagery (8,11)

R.   Gad about riotous Dahomey, maybe absent for the
Lord (7)

S.   Oftentimes Hull fines riotously inclined in due
course (2,3,8,2,4)

T.   Hard boiled? Dash it! Ordered scrambled! : established
customs are not readily modified (3,6,3,4)

U.   Connecting points surrounding disruptive team with
worms (9)