  We investigate temperature and entropy profiles of 13 nearby cooling flow
clusters observed with the EPIC cameras of XMM-Newton. When normalized and
scaled by the virial radius the temperature profiles turn out to be remarkably
similar. At large radii the temperature profiles show a clear decline starting
from a break radius at ~ 0.1 r_vir. The temperature decreases by ~30 % between
0.1 r_vir and 0.5 r_vir. As expected for systems where non-gravitational
processes are of great importance, the scale length characterizing the central
temperature drop is not found to be proportional to the virial radius of the
system. The entropy of the plasma increases monotonically moving outwards
almost proportional to the radius and the central entropy level is tightly
correlated with the core radius of the X-ray emission. The dispersion in the
entropy profiles is smaller if the empirical relation S \propto T^{0.65} is
used instead of the standard self-similar relation S \propto T and, as expected
for cooling flow clusters, no entropy cores are observed.
