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Slouch about, having lost heart in muggy Scottish weather (4) | muggy Scottish weather | 3.0 | end | MOCH | 3.0end |
Drunk must conceal wine, which is novel | novel | 1.0 | end | UNCLE TOMS CABIN | 1.0end |
Passage is guarded by porter, say (5) | Passage | 1.0 | start | AISLE | 1.0start |
Learning to conserve one foreign flower (5) | foreign flower | 2.0 | end | LOIRE | 2.0end |
Vessel in service yielding easy money with craft (5,4) | Vessel in service | 3.0 | start | GRAVY BOAT | 3.0start |
Fine-tune variable way of working on holiday (9) | holiday | 1.0 | end | HONEYMOON | 1.0end |
Dear writer of verses has penned two pages (6) | Dear | 1.0 | start | POPPET | 1.0start |
Strangely, Gill not ringing (7) | ringing | 1.0 | end | TOLLING | 1.0end |
Mirror in Quebec house (4) | Mirror | 1.0 | start | ECHO | 1.0start |
Dope getting left in depression (4) | depression | 1.0 | end | GLEN | 1.0end |
Support for library users? (9) | Support for library users? | 4.0 | start | BOOKSHELF | 4.0start |
Be suspicious of some nonconformist rusticated (8) | Be suspicious of | 3.0 | start | MISTRUST | 3.0start |
What fighter may carry out through following cunning (5) | What fighter may carry out | 5.0 | start | FLYBY | 5.0start |
Smothering resistance, recklessly pays up for ancient document (7) | ancient document | 2.0 | end | PAPYRUS | 2.0end |
Bloomer ruined tree? I'll say! (6,4) | Bloomer | 1.0 | start | EASTER LILY | 1.0start |
Curious how day’s dim (7) | dim | 1.0 | end | SHADOWY | 1.0end |
Mushroom dessert northern men sent up (9) | Mushroom | 1.0 | start | MOUSSERON | 1.0start |
Municipal officer beginning to cheer in call for round of drinks (6) | Municipal officer | 2.0 | start | SCHOUT | 2.0start |
European notes tucking into tea in Indian city (7) | Indian city | 2.0 | end | CHENNAI | 2.0end |
A prosecuting officer’s girl (3) | girl | 1.0 | end | ADA | 1.0end |
One entering part of the church, innocent (5) | innocent | 1.0 | end | NAIVE | 1.0end |
Reside at home at this stage (6) | Reside | 1.0 | start | INHERE | 1.0start |
Take advantage of former plan to tour India (7) | Take advantage of | 3.0 | start | EXPLOIT | 3.0start |
Cultured person losing head (4) | Cultured | 1.0 | start | ARTY | 1.0start |
Composer from Wales met an arranger (7) | Composer | 1.0 | start | SMETANA | 1.0start |
Heavy bouncer coming from BMA social? (8,4) | Heavy bouncer | 2.0 | start | MEDICINE BALL | 2.0start |
Stay at the front? | Stay at the front? | 4.0 | start | TRUCE | 4.0start |
A scorer briefly crossing a sort of green, one at the White House once (7,7) | one at the White House once | 6.0 | end | ABRAHAM LINCOLN | 6.0end |
Somewhat petty complaint rejected in break (8) | Somewhat petty | 2.0 | start | SMALLISH | 2.0start |
New corset bishop must get out of? Fat chance! | Fat chance | 2.0 | middle | NO DICE | 2.0middle |
Lulu longing to entertain married princess (9) | Lulu | 1.0 | start | HUMDINGER | 1.0start |
Former statesman’s to agitate briefly with South American, reportedly (12) | Former statesman’s | 2.0 | start | CHURCHILLIAN | 2.0start |
Primate I listened to repeatedly (3-3) | null | 1.0 | middle | AYE-AYE | 1.0middle |
At some stage note error also needs correction (6,2,5) | At some stage | 3.0 | start | SOONER OR LATER | 3.0start |
Part to go round audibly (4) | Part | 1.0 | start | ROLE | 1.0start |
Fizzy drink delivery outside extremely shoddy base for armchair sport? (7,8) | armchair sport? | 2.0 | end | FANTASY FOOTBALL | 2.0end |
Inaccuracy of English bishop, one with old American cape (13) | Inaccuracy | 1.0 | start | ERRONEOUSNESS | 1.0start |
Hold back burden (7) | Hold back/burden | 2.0 | middle | REFRAIN | 2.0middle |
V & A visitor most uncertain (7) | most uncertain | 2.0 | end | VAGUEST | 2.0end |
Ornamentation adjusted for uniform twice | Ornamentation | 1.0 | start | FROUFROU | 1.0start |
Lie about insect being in food that's sent back (8) | Lie about | 2.0 | start | STAGNATE | 2.0start |
College head wanting a good book, devoid of current jargon (12) | jargon | 1.0 | end | TECHNOBABBLE | 1.0end |
Space around this heath (4) | heath | 1.0 | end | MOOR | 1.0end |
Four getting stuck into the drink — it's bubbly (5) | bubbly | 1.0 | end | ALIVE | 1.0end |
Endless filth is ghastly (4) | ghastly | 1.0 | end | GRIM | 1.0end |
One who’s stopped working on island (7) | One who’s stopped working | 4.0 | start | RETIREE | 4.0start |
Composer’s hard day, struggling by noon (5) | Composer | 1.0 | start | HAYDN | 1.0start |
Fame about now, heading for notoriety (6) | Fame | 1.0 | start | RENOWN | 1.0start |
Home for hermit in Home Counties — like Hades (8) | Home for hermit | 3.0 | start | SEASHELL | 3.0start |
Windy river, confined in another river (10) | Windy | 1.0 | start | SERPENTINE | 1.0start |
Yes, I have long fingers (3-3) | Yes/I have long fingers | 4.0 | middle | AYE-AYE | 4.0middle |
Some unfortunate fish (4) | fish | 1.0 | end | TUNA | 1.0end |
Covers ring with one large layer of earth (7) | layer of earth | 3.0 | end | TOPSOIL | 3.0end |
One sooty worker after a good wash / winning all the prizes (1,5,5) | One sooty worker after a good wash// winning all the prizes | 11.0 | middle | A CLEAN SWEEP | 11.0middle |
Ruled out old notion about duke having died (8) | null | 1.0 | middle | EXCLUDED | 1.0middle |
Old magistrate taking bible class the day before (5) | Old magistrate | 2.0 | start | REEVE | 2.0start |
Guarantee rebuke when scratching head (6) | Guarantee | 1.0 | start | ENSURE | 1.0start |
Places one appreciates at first, visiting island in eastern state (9) | in eastern state | 3.0 | end | MALAYSIAN | 3.0end |
Article put out on home brewing (2,3,3) | brewing | 1.0 | end | IN THE AIR | 1.0end |
Brother’s set about roughly in brawl (6) | brawl | 1.0 | end | FRACAS | 1.0end |
Romp curtailed by French girlfriend in city (7) | city | 1.0 | end | LARAMIE | 1.0end |
Resist outcast from the east (5) | Resist | 1.0 | start | REPEL | 1.0start |
Rock climber following one — look — on way up (7) | Rock | 1.0 | start | OLIVINE | 1.0start |
First dance with nothing on may go down like this! (4,7) | may go down like this | 5.0 | middle | LEAD BALLOON | 5.0middle |
Nail for horses harness (4) | Nail/harness | 1.0 | middle | TACK | 1.0middle |
I love 1AM ramble, after changing into jogging things? (11) | jogging things | 2.0 | middle | MEMORABILIA | 2.0middle |
Health worker, poorly insured, firm admitted (8,5) | Health worker | 2.0 | start | DISTRICT NURSE | 2.0start |
Military leader and Roman emperor beheaded Roman orator (6) | Roman orator | 2.0 | end | CICERO | 2.0end |
One measures / a big gun, perhaps? (5) | One measures/a big gun, perhaps | 5.0 | middle | RULER | 5.0middle |
Fijian with toothache tries this, somewhat soft on gargling (5) | Fijian with toothache tries this | 5.0 | start | TONGA | 5.0start |
Eccentric boasted when cutting southern Yankee (6) | Eccentric | 1.0 | start | SCREWY | 1.0start |
50 per cent of satellites orbited off course in region of solar system (8,4) | region of solar system | 4.0 | end | ASTEROID BELT | 4.0end |
Fail to win compassion, become disillusioned (4,5) | become disillusioned | 2.0 | end | LOSE HEART | 2.0end |
Attempt place in event (4,3) | event | 1.0 | end | SHOT PUT | 1.0end |
One heading for snow protected by mountain is a famousNorwegian (5) | a famousNorwegian | 2.0 | end | IBSEN | 2.0end |
Old Arab people hospitalised? (7) | Old Arab | 2.0 | start | SARACEN | 2.0start |
Statement true about city dumping yen (7) | Statement | 1.0 | start | RECITAL | 1.0start |
Agent almost penniless (5) | penniless | 1.0 | end | BROKE | 1.0end |
Present taken up (3) | Present | 1.0 | start | NOW | 1.0start |
Old person using their teeth in passing (6) | in passing | 2.0 | end | OBITER | 2.0end |
Richardson’s girl topped Pasternak’s (7) | Richardson’s girl topped Pasternak’s/Pasternak’s | 4.0 | middle | LARISSA | 4.0middle |
Spots some Scottish Water precipitation (8) | precipitation | 1.0 | end | RASHNESS | 1.0end |
From where child may feed tame animal immediately (3,2,4) | From where child may feed tame animal/immediately | 7.0 | middle | OUT OF HAND | 7.0middle |
An attractive way of speaking that’s used in French, say (5,6) | used in French | 3.0 | middle | ACUTE ACCENT | 3.0middle |
Isolated inside pit with collar to wrap throat (4-4) | with collar to wrap throat | 5.0 | end | POLO | 5.0end |
A Finnish company in retreat — no way out of Africa (6) | no way out of Africa | 5.0 | end | AIKONA | 5.0end |
Sentimental film has career Yank meeting Queen (10) | Sentimental film | 2.0 | start | TEARJERKER | 2.0start |
Powerful person in pub, working (5) | Powerful person | 2.0 | start | BARON | 2.0start |
Coercion, you, say, escaped from with revolting disguise (5,2) | disguise | 1.0 | end | DRESS UP | 1.0end |
My number is secret as before (5) | secret as before | 3.0 | end | DEARN | 3.0end |
Horses that might feature on the menu? (8) | Horses/might feature on the menu? | 5.0 | middle | TROTTERS | 5.0middle |
Former writer’s ultimately excessive outlay (7) | outlay | 1.0 | end | EXPENSE | 1.0end |
Item often illegally exported from country without coast (5) | Item often illegally exported | 4.0 | start | IVORY | 4.0start |
Popular sort of tea one kept in jug (6) | one kept in jug | 4.0 | end | INMATE | 4.0end |
Summons learner driver aboard vehicle in local smashes (7,4) | Summons | 1.0 | start | CLARION CALL | 1.0start |
Enchanting woman accompanying boxing clubs (5) | Enchanting woman | 2.0 | start | WITCH | 2.0start |
City witches go for (8) | City | 1.0 | start | COVENTRY | 1.0start |
One hundred and fifty live in part of Ireland (5) | part of Ireland | 3.0 | end | CLARE | 3.0end |
What's right in heart of Tate (3) | What's right in heart of Tate | 6.0 | start | ART | 6.0start |
Italian city is situated in plain to the west (7) | Italian city | 2.0 | start | TREVISO | 2.0start |