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oligarch | Goal with rich type to be one of the few in charge (8) |
teetered | Without hesitation, posted online message, forgetting wife was unstable? (8) |
duck down | Hide what fills bedcover? (4,4) |
isobath | Line marked on chart revealed his boat at sea (7) |
swears in | Inducts into office when answer is correct (6,2) |
shiva | God, victorious leader in a branch of Islam (5) |
imhotep | Complaint voiced by overexercise to ancient physician (7) |
tearless | Dry aristocrat entertained by tragic female (8) |
resting | Not acting still? (7) |
profanation | "Bum", "fart", "poo" in an act of irreverence (11) |
horse laugh | Guffaw if her goulash is awful (5,5) |
rattletrap | Knackered old bus conductor's role reversal (10) |
felt tips | Writers were aware of extremes (4,4) |
around | A catch in the neighbourhood (6) |
dry bob | No Eton rower when born by right enters backwards (3,3) |
cottage industry | City state ground out small business (7,8) |
deadline | Phone call impossible, given cutoff point (8) |
gremlin | Men cavorting with girl - there's trouble in the air (7) |
exmoor | Former African area in the southwest (6) |
abstain | Possibly ban Asti - and other drinks! (7) |
doe eyed | Stupid me, this setter would say, looking like a deer (3,4) |
log out | See painful condition end session (3,3) |
just so | Fair, therefore bang on (4,2) |
accrete | Fuse current with one's call out from faulty electricals (7) |
climb down | Enigmatist is heartless bod interrupting circus entertainer - needs to get humbler (5,4) |
rain gauge | Arguing violently about a drug, drops measuring equipment (4,5) |
metamorphoses | Prophet grasping complex metaphor is transformed (13) |
negev | Even good ground produced this area (5) |
thesauri | Reference works showing smash hit about hairy man - redhead (8) |
schisms | Differences found in, that is to say, his manuscript (7) |
padlock | One way to secure former standing within group (7) |
lothian | Where reluctant Scotsman lives? (7) |
parsnips | Unloved clergyman is eating soft veg? (8) |
keep away | Not only don't come, but prevent others coming (4,4) |
jung | Pole imprisoned by German in Salad Days? (4) |
faustian | Fellow runs away from European prepared to sell his soul (8) |
rumour | Guardian's chasing peculiar kite (6) |
wallis | See (6) |
day tripper | Such a person spends time in a town in Scotland inside a big fairground feature (3,7) |
refugee | Big leader off, free to move around as outcast (7) |
intention | Purpose of being taut as reported (9) |
timbre | Rice gets British capital for Evita - or The Sound of Music (6) |
llanfair | Unusual rainfall in North Wales (8) |
assemblyman | Legislator's fabulously manly bass enthrals little girl (11) |
hallucinogen | Enough! Nearly calling off trip on this (12) |
keyed up | Wound to striking pitch? (5,2) |
forbore | Held back from warning about globe (7) |
good deed | Try to take too much and exploit selfless act? (4,4) |
household name | A hem one should repair: everyone knows that (9,4) |
ratherish | That woman is taken in by rogue husband to some extent (9) |
tamil nadu | Adult, one man's transformed state (5,4) |
spear | Weapon found in spare ground (5) |
concave | Depressed kid goes to Aladdin's magic place (7) |
jettison | Aircraft one's not prepared to abandon (8) |
likely | Odds on looking good? (6) |
castigates | Gives a poor review when stage act is terrible (10) |
snowflake | Drifter on bar, overly sensitive type (9) |
triple time | Waltz rhythm conveyed by Scott trumpeter? (6,4) |
easygoing | Cheerful midshipman goes on leave (9) |
fussiest | Most decorated lidless tarts in fact short of filling (8) |
baby boomer | Joey, member of postwar generation (4,6) |
paraffin | Suffering with intake of rubbish fuel (8) |
decapitation | If corrupt, do anticipate severe punishment (12) |
tooled up | Excessively under guidance, finished carrying a gun (6,2) |
horizontal | The prospect: chat mainly in flat (10) |
compensate | Writer settled in advance to make amends (10) |
damper | Read about Blair backing restraint (6) |
nauseous | Showing common sense about a habit that arouses intense disgust (8) |
eventful | Momentous opening in fuel production (8) |
once upon a time | Start tale thus or continue a poem willy-nilly? (4,4,1,4) |
headiness | Thrill one found between promontories (9) |
sherds | Cattle on board smashed crockery (6) |
hewing | Cutting male player with peripheral role (6) |
magnum | Keep quiet about silver and nitrogen in the bottle (6) |
inordinate | Rendition: a treatment that's excessive (10) |
flambeau | Female left male lover carrying a torch (8) |
pipits | Object when time signal is put out for birds (6) |
rickshaw | Forgetting those in loo, hustled workaholics into vehicle (8) |
althorn | Instrument that's low even if fleet (7) |
single figures | Pop CD's sales stats? Disappointing if in these (6,7) |
edgar | The Peaceful King raged uncharacteristically (5) |
stop dead | Kitty's back late - have a very quick check (4,4) |
chunder | Sick in Australia (see hospital below) (7) |
cestui | That one seen at church with crumpled suit (6) |
train oil | During work, drops greasy product (5,3) |
cock | Crow may come after this bird (4) |
vizier | Namely - that's right - a Muslim official (6) |
tentacled | Not delicate, perhaps, leaving one with nothing: yet so capable of grasping! (9) |
snails pace | Ground speed of a slow-moving shell (6,4) |
dithered | Performed therein, having hesitated (8) |
ingres | I painted Napoleon with some striking results (6) |
on safari | Travelling after the game (2,6) |
test out | Sample tea, short of a brew (4,3) |
fortune teller | One predicts there'll be a lot of money on the counter (7,6) |
city editor | Paper money expert in soldiers' company tried it out (4,6) |
breath | What's on in Aqua Sulis is inspired (6) |
battleship | Martial craft degree - split the proceeds (10) |
sorel | Social philosopher vexed by student (5) |
durban | Dead Pope (6) |
lincolnshire | Hundreds into riding here and briefly golf, say (12) |