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play fair | Act honourably and skin fruit for Spooner (4,4) |
three piece | Suit(e) trio (5,5) |
homes | Weeds cover front of most houses (5) |
clotheslines | Changes of gear may depend on them (12) |
simenon | Writer of detective stories puts people in heaven (7) |
appointees | Those taken on a quiet river current over another river (10) |
update | At university, daughter cooked tea, which is news (6) |
frowsty | Stuffy with cold cases (7) |
thud | Dull report in Thursday's daily's leader (4) |
dinner time | Daughter's body clock determines when to have food (6,4) |
rifle shot | Sweltering under sacks? That's life-threatening! (5,4) |
close season | Confine temper now the game is safe (5,6) |
spookier | Track plugged by Kelvin that is more unsettling (8) |
pretension | Stress follows before making a claim (10) |
henry higgins | Professor initially appearing twice in a row in this puzzle (5,7) |
tell apart | Distinguish between lines embraced by far right group - almost (4,5) |
cetacea | A pair of aces, possibly, held model in Wales, you may say (7) |
atropine | Belladonna causing a dreadful crime - city leaves on tree (8) |
anarchists | An unruly lot that won't take orders (10) |
stakeholders | New Labour's vampire hunters? (12) |
ohmic | Officer conveying Her Majesty, one behaving as conductor would? (5) |
cape doctor | Catholic primate to give treatment for wind in South Africa (4,6) |
rebate | Discount English book with set standard jacket (6) |
jack ketch | Sailor on boat - he used to work with ropes (4,5) |
inchoate | Immature island cattle ultimately eating tall grass (8) |
florists | Rose and Lily may be in these shops- flirts so naughty (8) |
canonic | Regular choir leader (who shall be nameless) in charge (7) |
moorlands | Writing about poor Orlando Heath (9) |
trebuchet | I hurl stones, but three caught surprisingly (9) |
bongo drum | It's beaten - Good Heavens! - with spirit (5,4) |
first thing | Possibly the Big Bang fright isn't over (5,5) |
reflate | Take financial action when game official's delayed (7) |
leathern | Discover about the stuff of old boots? (8) |
lives | Stories about first of vindictive biographies (5) |
bodyguard | "Defender's daughter kidnapped by young man" - by this paper (not the Scotsman) (9) |
chameleon | Blender makes a mess of clean home (9) |
sickly | Feeble, like an old reaper, might you say? (6) |
smalls | Arcade aboard ship supplies underwear (6) |
tenor | Singer in a long-forgotten oratorio (5) |
opens up | Reveals that one is being less reserved (5,2) |
scubas | Ship circling island with diving equipment (6) |
angler | He drops a line hoping for some response (6) |
anglo irish | It's about two countries sharing oil out (5,5) |
long windedness | Shown by one going round the houses (4,10) |
rondinos | Little pieces of iron dinosaur swallows (8) |
jiffy | Moment that's doubtful on the first of January (5) |
clue in | Brief encounter, at first, with one in Shropshire location (4,2) |
stepbrothers | Herbert's post about marital relations (12) |
tropical | Like where it's right to wear a sun hat provided by the state? (8) |
papal | Head of church's non-variable system for transferring money (5) |
two time | Deceive company? On occasion (3,4) |
airmen | Pair mentioned to some of the pilots (6) |
chancel | Opportunity given to a number in the church (7) |
amis | Author wrong not to offer conclusion (4) |
freeholder | Case supporting idle property owner (10) |
milder | Runner carrying diamonds, not so hot (6) |
heeding | Attending to empty house, say, without commotion (7) |
ponce | Bum somewhat plump on celebrity (5) |
adroitly | Skilfully manipulate idolatry (8) |
delaware | State of the French merchandise (8) |
botswana | Saw baton wielded in Africa (8) |
raise aloft | Ground-to-air, false lift (5,5) |
birthday | Special occasion, maybe third in recess (8) |
idiopathic | Dictator offered nothing for it: chap ravaged by kind of disease with no known cause (10) |
rousted | In flaming, fire disturbed (7) |
manchester | Fans then scream 'City!' (10) |
treadmills | Circulatory systems made people walk to work (10) |
amour | University in foreign capital, contrary affair (5) |
rapidly | Knock not deliberately fast (7) |
brassiere | Support restaurant in which one has been raised (9) |
flora macdonald | Heroine from clan of old with drama unfolding (5,9) |
entertaining | Slaying one gannet; one tern revived (12) |
isoclinal | Silicon confused with aluminium with the same slope (9) |
dear brutus | Barrie's play translated from 'Rook in a Strawberry Tree' (4,6) |
poster boy | When Charles should inherit, thug stands up as representative (6,3) |
outfield | The deep - place for many catches (8) |
gambia | Plan contracted by a country (6) |
disclosing | Record missing? It's broadcasting (10) |
joker | GI (Republican) palms king and another card (5) |
tendril | Climber can hang on using this, naturally (7) |
project | Launch scheme (7) |
bounds | Limits us in Bond novel (6) |
textual | Re writing - rewriting? - lute tax (7) |
aerobic | Like some exercise? I carried back some French wine bottles (7) |
pass muster | Do overhaul assembly (4,6) |
hit | Sock drained of colour we chucked (3) |
buckled | Crumpled dollar bill had influence (7) |
as if | Answer riddle without a tip? Can't see that happening (2,2) |
kerosine | Cattle without love for oil (8) |
push | Force Russian poet to leave family (4) |
folded | Doubled over and collapsed (6) |
glen | Dope cut with large narrow hollow (4) |
trying it on | Seeing how far one can go in fitting room? (6,2,2) |
johnson | Disciple following evangelist, a man of many words (7) |
all day | Calm, swallowing drink (no ice), from dawn to dusk (3,3) |
blood bank | Accounts here in the red? (5,4) |
curls up | Gets into a ball with corkscrew and drink (5,2) |
slate club | Communal fund for a night on the tiles? (5,4) |
lambeth | A walk to the palace? (7) |
ash | Key producer playing role of leader in Hollywood (3) |