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Translation of this page involves conclusion of plot with many strands (9) | with many strands | 3.0 | end | SPAGHETTI | 3.0end |
Most senior of the French embraced by English lieutenant (6) | Most senior | 2.0 | start | ELDEST | 2.0start |
A US lot losing heart unfortunately in Oklahoman city (5) | Oklahoman city | 2.0 | end | TULSA | 2.0end |
Ale supplier having bartender empty pitcher (6) | Ale supplier | 2.0 | start | BREWER | 2.0start |
Prediction heard if warning players (7,8) | Prediction | 1.0 | start | WEATHER FORECAST | 1.0start |
A loud cry after wife’s total failure (7) | total failure | 2.0 | end | WASHOUT | 2.0end |
… is what it will be if the typist doesn’t get a shift on (8) | … is what it will be if the typist doesn’t get a shift on | 14.0 | start | ASTERISK | 14.0start |
Grip left in odd storage space on ship (12) | Grip | 1.0 | start | STRANGLEHOLD | 1.0start |
Judicial speciality having edge in everything covered by comment from beak? (8,3) | Judicial speciality | 2.0 | start | CRIMINAL LAW | 2.0start |
Northern home, one virtually dark (5) | Northern home | 2.0 | start | IGLOO | 2.0start |
Character in Greek article volunteers (5) | Character in Greek | 3.0 | start | THETA | 3.0start |
Hatching a plot? Fascinating! (10) | Hatching a plot?/Fascinating! | 3.0 | middle | INTRIGUING | 3.0middle |
Item the Parisian found under lorry (7) | Item | 1.0 | start | ARTICLE | 1.0start |
Reserve first of tables in coastal area (3,5) | Reserve | 1.0 | start | SET ASIDE | 1.0start |
A Guernsey detective cut off sharpish (6) | null | 1.0 | middle | ACIDIC | 1.0middle |
Pith helmet, best one (4) | Pith helmet | 2.0 | start | TOPI | 2.0start |
One prompting motion reconstituting a vile tax | One prompting motion | 3.0 | start | LAXATIVE | 3.0start |
Descend from on high bringing contract (4,4,4) | Descend from on high bringing/contract | 5.0 | middle | COME DOWN WITH | 5.0middle |
Large Italian male, loose-limbed (5) | loose-limbed | 1.0 | end | LITHE | 1.0end |
Troublesome insect perhaps over sauce (5) | sauce | 1.0 | end | PESTO | 1.0end |
Roman road circling two lakes and country house (5) | country house | 2.0 | end | VILLA | 2.0end |
Flog business during sudden upswing (7) | Flog | 1.0 | start | SCOURGE | 1.0start |
Limit relaxation, taking shower? (8) | Limit | 1.0 | start | RESTRAIN | 1.0start |
Key adversely affects stuffing pipe down bog (4,5) | bog | 1.0 | end | SALT MARSH | 1.0end |
Escape grasping wife, getting clean away? (5) | clean away | 2.0 | middle | SWEEP | 2.0middle |
Grass left to grow up on island (4) | Grass | 1.0 | start | DARI | 1.0start |
Servant who could be Eritrean (8) | Servant | 1.0 | start | RETAINER | 1.0start |
Husband put in delicate position (5) | null | 1.0 | middle | NICHE | 1.0middle |
Expression of despair by pedestrian performer allowed no rehearsal? (5-6) | performer allowed no rehearsal? | 4.0 | end | SIGHT | 4.0end |
Consequences of one initially minor agreement (6) | Consequences | 1.0 | start | IMPACT | 1.0start |
Given food — or a hat! (6) | hat | 1.0 | middle | FEDORA | 1.0middle |
Holy Land area within borders of sand (6) | Holy | 1.0 | start | SACRED | 1.0start |
Music from revolutionary agent welcomed to state ball (7) | null | 1.0 | middle | CALYPSO | 1.0middle |
Exclusive group start to enter through low gate (3,2-5) | Exclusive group | 2.0 | start | THE IN | 2.0start |
Private leaving the field hurt? (8) | Private/leaving the field hurt | 4.0 | middle | RETIRING | 4.0middle |
Star mimed, unexpectedly, halfway through (9) | null | 1.0 | middle | MIDSTREAM | 1.0middle |
Los Angeles - less than clean (7) | clean | 1.0 | end | LAUNDER | 1.0end |
Organ the archbishop has installed (3) | Organ | 1.0 | start | EAR | 1.0start |
Grunts of young one on the line (8) | Grunts | 1.0 | start | INFANTRY | 1.0start |
Hurried a bit, nearly producing kidnapper's demand (6) | kidnapper's demand | 2.0 | end | RANSOM | 2.0end |
Sidekick's scheme's last to start (4) | Sidekick | 1.0 | start | AIDE | 1.0start |
Current cartographers put back rail line on map (6) | line on map | 3.0 | end | ISOBAR | 3.0end |
Internal organs ultimately destroy neighbour of Kildare (6) | neighbour of Kildare | 3.0 | end | OFFALY | 3.0end |
Partiality shown by arts graduates around India (4) | Partiality | 1.0 | start | BIAS | 1.0start |
Knotty old lady? (6) | Knotty old lady | 3.0 | start | GRANNY | 3.0start |
Paper reviewed green comic strip (8) | comic strip | 2.0 | end | GARFIELD | 2.0end |
Lapps tear apart this fruit (4-5) | Lapps tear | 2.0 | start | STAR | 2.0start |
Northern city quickly attracting any number (7) | Northern city | 2.0 | start | PRESTON | 2.0start |
Fleet member — 7 falling short (6) | Fleet | 1.0 | start | ARMADA | 1.0start |
City where de Gaulle would appear after church (5) | City | 1.0 | start | ARLES | 1.0start |
Tango leaves part of leg extended above the normal level (4) | extended above the normal level | 5.0 | end | HIGH | 5.0end |
What can clear stuff in port? Get strainer out (8) | What can clear stuff in port | 6.0 | start | TRANSIRE | 6.0start |
Play safe with hammer (5,3) | Play | 1.0 | start | PETER PAN | 1.0start |
Carpentry tool from church lies abandoned (6) | Carpentry tool | 2.0 | start | CHISEL | 2.0start |
Hong Kong's about to arrest one Punjabi? (4) | Punjabi | 1.0 | middle | SIKH | 1.0middle |
Fake illness needs mother to stay around (8) | Fake illness | 2.0 | start | MALINGER | 2.0start |
Toppled tyrant ultimately disgraced, beheaded (7) | Toppled | 1.0 | start | TUMBLED | 1.0start |
Baddy on street serving protest (13) | protest | 1.0 | end | DEMONSTRATION | 1.0end |
Gas money in the US, superior to your old pounds (8) | Gas | 1.0 | start | DIMETHYL | 1.0start |
A course of action ending in surly indifference (6) | indifference | 1.0 | end | APATHY | 1.0end |
Barges Les manoeuvred around front of ship (6) | Barges | 1.0 | start | ELBOWS | 1.0start |
Snatching mobile for bit of a lark could be the beginning of this (8) | Snatching mobile for bit of a lark could be the beginning of this | 13.0 | start | STEAMING | 13.0start |
Young hare loses head, circling top of snowy mountain (7) | mountain | 1.0 | end | EVEREST | 1.0end |
Hack back old-fashioned, short frizzy hairdo (8) | Hack | 1.0 | start | REPORTER | 1.0start |
East Anglian student involved in a row? (9,4) | East Anglian student involved in a row | 7.0 | start | CAMBRIDGE BLUE | 7.0start |
Choirboy maybe briefly gets up after Fiona and Hazel (7) | Hazel | 1.0 | end | FILBERT | 1.0end |
Policeman’s list of wrong-doers (9) | Policeman | 1.0 | start | CONSTABLE | 1.0start |
Point to suggest without complication (6) | without complication | 2.0 | end | SIMPLY | 2.0end |
Surrender of California vessel (4-2) | Surrender | 1.0 | start | CAVE-IN | 1.0start |
Variety of agate needs working unknown times (4) | Variety of agate | 3.0 | start | ONYX | 3.0start |
Think logically with reference to a male child (6) | Think logically | 2.0 | start | REASON | 2.0start |
Facing work to advance start of earning (8) | Facing | 1.0 | start | OPPOSITE | 1.0start |
In the Netherlands sleuth cocked up a hard case (8) | a hard case | 3.0 | end | NUTSHELL | 3.0end |
Bigoted Illinois artist involved in defamation | Bigoted | 1.0 | start | ILLIBERAL | 1.0start |
Subordinate position receives a command (9) | Subordinate | 1.0 | start | SATELLITE | 1.0start |
Hugo is mad, moving around foreign capital (9) | foreign capital | 2.0 | end | MOGADISHU | 2.0end |
Maybe extra keen on encounter (3,4) | encounter | 1.0 | end | RUN INTO | 1.0end |
Military group you join together, we hear (4) | Military group | 2.0 | start | UNIT | 2.0start |
Alas, nut wrong fruit! (7) | fruit | 1.0 | middle | SULTANA | 1.0middle |
A Gypsy heading north through European region (7) | European region | 2.0 | end | MORAVIA | 2.0end |
Overstep the mark and move twelve inches back, right? (2,3,3) | Overstep the mark | 3.0 | start | GO TOO FAR | 3.0start |
Neighbourhood watch, roughly fifty (5) | Neighbourhood | 1.0 | start | LOCAL | 1.0start |
Performer rejected new routine (4) | Performer | 1.0 | start | TURN | 1.0start |
Sportsman's father not taking sides, accepting foul shot (7) | Sportsman | 1.0 | start | ATHLETE | 1.0start |
Liking head of sculpture in London gallery (5) | Liking | 1.0 | start | TASTE | 1.0start |
Something sending elderly relative to sleep? Answer where nothing’s spoken (5,5) | where nothing’s spoken | 3.0 | end | GRAND OPERA | 3.0end |
Predict a feeling of annoyance, getting hit hard (7) | hit hard | 2.0 | end | BETHUMP | 2.0end |
A fee piously thrown over, certainly ironically (11, three words) | certainly ironically | 2.0 | end | IF YOU PLEASE | 2.0end |
Flightless bird in Prague museum (3) | Flightless bird | 2.0 | start | EMU | 2.0start |
Chilly precipitation’s coming up, bringing nerves (6) | nerves | 1.0 | end | STEELS | 1.0end |
Missing opening, cannon section ring and reverberate (2-4) | reverberate | 1.0 | end | RE-ECHO | 1.0end |
Note misuse of "me" and "I", borders on careless one.(8) - | misuse | 1.0 | middle | SOLECISM | 1.0middle |
Nothing pleasant pending (2,3) | pending | 1.0 | end | ON ICE | 1.0end |
A largely penniless place of learning in the Midlands (5) | place of learning in the Midlands | 6.0 | end | ASTON | 6.0end |
Not close to Italian? On the contrary (3,4,2) | On the contrary | 3.0 | end | FAR FROM IT | 3.0end |
Stop for welcome morsel (8) | Stop | 1.0 | start | PROHIBIT | 1.0start |
One investigates broken lute in case of Sherlock Holmes initially (6) | One investigates | 2.0 | start | SLEUTH | 2.0start |
Cephalonia’s interior is steaming — get as far from the sun as possible (8) | as far from the sun as possible | 7.0 | end | APHELION | 7.0end |
Fiddler supposedly taking part in Wagner opera (4) | Fiddler supposedly | 2.0 | start | NERO | 2.0start |
Stress English politician has income support initially (8) | Stress | 1.0 | start | EMPHASIS | 1.0start |