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trivium | Brief virtue - I'm revising old liberal arts curriculum (7) |
gin rummy | Spirit doubly applied to my game (3,5) |
embrowned | Get tanned via the web - modern way (9) |
prudent | Cautious pair, you said, tend to go mad (7) |
strega | Italian liqueur strong and mature on reflection (6) |
trapani | Society leaving partisan destroyed port (7) |
freighters | Soldiers embark in aircraft and ships (10) |
tomahawk | Cruise, a belligerent sort of missile (8) |
gelid | Cut off bits, keeping one frozen (5) |
fittest | Most suitable match for survivors? (7) |
feel sympathy | Seems return for my passage will be by end of day - pity! (4,8) |
blue ensign | It indicates the Naval Reserve officer is cold (4,6) |
manic | Chap in charge is wild (5) |
malice | Many caught in a lie show spite (6) |
filter out | Remove impurity in trifle? (6,3) |
without strings | A brass band plays so freely (7,7) |
mantilla | I will fish around for scarf (8) |
royal blue | Prince playing for Oxford or Cambridge? (5,4) |
phenomenon | Men on phone exchange will be a rarity (10) |
manholes | Spooner's Chinese spies showing means to go underground (8) |
hootenannies | What owls do with goats outside English songfests (12) |
astragal | Silver in heavenly ornament (8) |
hawkbit | Warmonger - a little weed (7) |
negro | Black note held by fiddler (5) |
megalomaniac | One power-hungry Arab enters a new calm age (12) |
share out | Authors bothered about bookstore's ultimate allocation of cash? (5,3) |
nudists | They have nothing to hide (7) |
tigris | Flower teacher, unpleasant person, pulled up (6) |
cat food | Brought round to prepare, regularly, a cold meal for queen (3,4) |
petrel | Bird with sound means of propulsion? (6) |
slap on the wrist | Soft carpeting? (4,2,3,5) |
financial times | Pink organ inelastic, if man excited (9,5) |
broncos | Wild horses seen by British on an island in the Med (7) |
armlet | Appendage allowed to be worn on the limb (6) |
aptitude | Tied up at work, reaching capacity (8) |
arrival | Painter upset by competitor's approach (7) |
verge | Never getting content staff (5) |
overate | Naked paramour and judge did stuff (7) |
worker | Misery ending in poker, with kings in hand (6) |
carrageen | Tip over mock seaweed (9) |
tile | Some gambit I learned that can be used in board game (4) |
make peace | Patch up one's differences with Thackeray? (4,5) |
dispelled | Melted away! Gone! About time! (9) |
green | Fresh information about the interior (5) |
ranaria | Controlled song for amphibians' homes (7) |
caboc | Accountant's horse rolled over (5) |
aruba | Rescue service overcomes obstacle to Caribbean island (5) |
receivership | Criminals' joint business in trouble when in this (12) |
dassie | Small mammal contracted disease, unfortunately (6) |
remarry | Note cut by railway, so start another union (7) |
refundable | A blunder with fee almost embarrassed - to be paid back (10) |
spiffy | Smart, but without issue dubious (6) |
duenna | Chaperon is expected to bring the girl back (6) |
mantua | Ray hides posh gown (6) |
fearless | Unblinking female lacking features on the head? (8) |
sunbather | One suffering heat burns (9) |
brush away | Sweep aside Rugby playwright in cove (5,4) |
sizable | Large blaze is put out (7) |
hoisted | In difficulty, so Edith given a lift (7) |
reigned | Held power, though fell on pronouncement (7) |
rosamund | Groundsman extremely relieved, falling for a woman (8) |
disembody | Take from person? Some did by being wicked (9) |
discombobulates | Confuses though most basic, double confused (15) |
roses | These associated with Eros especially (5) |
sin | It makes one fall, endlessly (3) |
besmirched | Gathering herbs, medic may get dirty (10) |
get the sack | A gamekeeper might, if the bag isn't big enough (3,3,4) |
fastens | Set off among supporters for ties (7) |
total eclipse | Complete obliteration of story on pieces of film in digital envelope (5,7) |
formalism | Purely structural approach supporting African country's millions (9) |
stopgaps | Acting managers and what they say to leaky defences? (8) |
envies | Points, one repeated, about sex and sins, in a way (6) |
furze | Bush in which foxes, perhaps, can be heard (5) |
foresight | Preparedness to battle when stealing minerals (9) |
attimes | Occasionally imitates assembly after Head had left (7) |
trotters | Racehorses go tailless ahead of fish-eaters (8) |
florae | Loafer edited lists of plants from various regions (6) |
fury | Heartless description of cat causes anger (4) |
icon | One has to look carefully at a picture (4) |
twelfth night | Viola player's busy time? (7,5) |
headless chicken | Raven going spare? (8,7) |
afraid | It is feared leader is missing in RAF raid (6) |
atomisation | A conversion into a moist spray (11) |
remained | Stopped when socialist captured the state (8) |
surge | Confident in grabbing girl in stream (5) |
topaz | To keep changing channels should come up with a gem (5) |
there there | At that point, repeated consoling words (5,5) |
repapers | Harvesters claiming pee further decorates walls (8) |
uprisal | Unsettled air plus rebellion (7) |
hazel | Tree seen in mist over lake (5) |
get the picture | Acquire art and have one's eyes opened (3,3,7) |
lambda | Greek character hit black attorney (6) |
cyclone | Working through period of deep depression (7) |
khaki | Shade said to facilitate vehicular access (5) |
repeats | Agent dines often on box (7) |
musk roses | Modern Miss guarding flower in Wales grew fragrant blooms (4,5) |
ashram | A quiet drive to religious retreat (6) |
marriage | Union initially increasing cost of transport tenfold (8) |
clothed | Catholic reportedly hated getting dressed (7) |
kilkenny | Sort English news in Kentucky county (8) |