The Times - Cryptic - November 19, 2014

 The Times - Cryptic - This puzzle was solved within 60 mins by 42 of the 74 competitors in Heat One of the 2014 Times Crossword Championship - November 19, 2014

Clue	Answer
A revolutionary concealing gun briefly that's fallen out	ARGUED
Answer finished, not started say, with conviction	AVER
Becoming infatuated with buying	FALLINGFOR
Beggar daring to box policeman	GARDA
Book, for example, gripping doctor	AMOS
Doctor clear about DNA being a bit different in diary	CALENDAR
Drug supplied by boyfriend, extremely sociable at first	SEDATE
Fights to hold on to reserve collections of cuttings	SCRAPBOOKS
Fruit regularly dearer in depressed times	BLUEBERRY
Game fish not seen initially following attack	UNAFRAID
Idea for article	OBJECT
It's child's play, honest	STRAIGHTFORWARD
Kind husband has left a small whisky?	SORT
One river following another does?	DEER
Perhaps Oxbridge woman tarted up or given makeover	PORTMANTEAUWORD

Clue	Answer
Pilot accepting bribe not good for hearing	TRIBUNAL
Pluck shown in quality of speech	TWANG
Port by the way passed back in the wrong direction	STRANRAER
Pungent smelling gas over area	OZONE
Resulting agreement broken by what in Madrid?	CONSEQUENT
Show-off having to worry after very short time	FLASHHARRY
Shy animals turning tail	CAST
Sizeable flipping herbs I cooked — rhubarb?	GIBBERISH
State and condition mountain is seen in	MASSIF
Stop wife, a fast one, perhaps, wanting kiss!	WHOA
Unknown area skirting key resort	YALTA
Volume that's better? Second from Jack London, perhaps	CAPACITY
What might be drunk in estaminet, Frenchman conceded	ANISETTE
Wine about to turn up where film may be seen	CANISTER
Worried guy following football team, missing kick-off	ILLATEASE