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puritanism | Aunt is prim as a result of this (10) |
acorus | A metal company flags (6) |
steels | Metal shares are bargains, we hear (6) |
junk bond | Heroin found on spy: a high risk security (4,4) |
reach | Make master, finally, a head (5) |
wobblier | More shaky bowler, one spins … Catch! Bravo! (8) |
merchandise | Cherie's man does start unexpectedly to deliver the goods (11) |
draw back | Flinch because of a handicap (4,4) |
gruesome | Terrible Harry Grout mostly with yours truly taking drugs (8) |
passage of arms | Gunrunning, say, at outbreak of conflict (7,2,4) |
royal | Majestic poem or the reverse (5) |
red sky | Heavenly sight delightful to shepherds (3,3) |
palestine | Spike follows fence posts in the Middle East (9) |
crosscurrent | Angry with contemporary conflicting tendency (12) |
doornail | Cross erected, love burying a stud, supposedly dead? (8) |
hastiness | Speed with which wine goes to head after end of lunch (9) |
playground | Popular holiday region in which to act crushed (10) |
jamb | Post is the preserve of the auditor (4) |
rigoletto | Love girl madly, taking space traveller to the opera (9) |
self drive | Automotive? (4,5) |
engrained | Inveterate, if erroneous, need to store corn (9) |
eggspoon | One may be found on the breakfast table, having urge to make love (8) |
regard | See seething rage on road (6) |
revered | Esteemed American rider, first in Dodge (7) |
toping | Drinking a great deal of the best gin cocktail (6) |
archery | In which a performer has to take a bow (7) |
laicised | Without religion? Possibly idealistic without it (8) |
elicit | European leader approved extract (6) |
newts | Women seen through curtains? They're not the sober type (5) |
tog up | Perhaps procured dress very smartly (3,2) |
tennyson | Poet composed sonnet about New York (8) |
sierra leone | Rosie Lee ran off into the country (6,5) |
spica | Star in charge in resort (5) |
two way | Reciprocal expression of wonder in flower (3,3) |
stripes | Bunk in ship as indication of rank (7) |
nerve gas | Chemical weapon - face wind (5,3) |
george best | Pilot, one who ran over time getting to airport (6,4) |
open handed | Charitable ongoing event he had also included (4,6) |
hard won | Firm currently in recession secured by industry (4,3) |
helipad | A comedown for transport chief admitting rudeness (7) |
soda | Fusses about with soft drink (4) |
wealthy | Why admit late items to be loaded? (7) |
match up | Lustreless chalice keeping hot to form a pair (5,2) |
groundsel | Plant turns into stick (9) |
guinea pig | Almost endless subject of experiments (6,3) |
flag waver | Government leader trapped by failing to declare patriot (4,5) |
eggslice | Encourages nits in the kitchen? (8) |
splashdown | A drop in the ocean (10) |
etheric | Boy keeping article relating to solvent (7) |
boom boom | Report on economic success indicates it's a joke! (4,4) |
fatima whitbread | As an Olympian, I threw up stout and I''m in need of a beer! (6,9) |
twenty | Left with time up front, then you're first to score (6) |
rathole | Her supply, with a lot in seedy place (7) |
jamaica inn | One maniac on the loose in the early part of year must be brought to book (7,3) |
three wheeler | Where there's confusion about the French car (5,7) |
harbinger | Not unknown for prince to hold drinking bout - a sign of the future? (9) |
swelters | Wrestles furiously and gets very hot (8) |
rock snake | Reel with drink around the midpoint of Monty Python (4,5) |
laugh | Crack up back of gluteal area, you disgust me! (5) |
a majori | Beethoven's seventh key, first from the greater (1,6) |
castrato | Old-time singer and performers meeting retired sailor at end of oratorio (8) |
embarrassment | The ridiculous Mr Bean masters discomfiture (13) |
tempests | Violent commotions from English politician in international events (8) |
impend | Threaten one member's demise (6) |
abides | Stays with piscivorous seamen? (6) |
telling | Significant disclosure (7) |
tellus | We want to know: who is the earth goddess? (6) |
regnancy | Rule expecting state to renounce leadership (8) |
aubrey beardsley | Illustrator to come from sale and buy cover for topless old man (6,9) |
exhumer | Stink in city when monster disappears - one in graveyard? (7) |
opening times | Looking in the paper to see when you can buy a drink (7,5) |
simnel cake | Easter treat, consisting of lime mixed with cold nitrogen and steeped in a sort of wine (6,4) |
sinuses | Origin of neuralgia in Susie's infected cavities (7) |
trimming | Adjusting balance with extra decoration (8) |
earflaps | Deerstalkers' comedowns? (8) |
veiled threats | One is not openly menaced by them (6,7) |
sec | Very short time needed to get dry (3) |
articulate | Express split into clearly distinct parts (10) |
assisi | Part of the Mass is identified with St Francis (6) |
arnica | Learn? I can't - lacking time for observation and application (6) |
hold out | Last to be dismissed, first catch (4,3) |
tow | Pull something that's nailed, did you say? (3) |
strip club | Wood, say, behind runway, where everything will be revealed (5,4) |
sodalities | Orders from FA reduced international matches (10) |
wickets | Gates secured by catches? (7) |
buzzwords | Pseudo-technical jargon: "Drone verbal contention" (9) |
medallions | Cuts prize given to rugby players (10) |
capital letter | Landlord in London, perhaps, found after a full (7,6) |
identities | Island gods embraced some Bible characters (10) |
stonehenge | Ancient monument gets ruined when one bird nests in it (10) |
meow | Seagull circles round, making beastly noise (4) |
above water | Out of difficulties, we veto Arab involvement (5,5) |
rack ones brains | No time to follow one's intellect? Think hard! (4,4,6) |
foxtrot | Steps taken to outwit left-winger (7) |
settle a score | Still twenty required to get even (6,1,5) |
neurosis | Nurses' leader notes one's worrying condition (8) |
biennial | Abroad, well rested, rising every two years (8) |
revolutionaries | Religious education is inconsistent, without answer, without opening; they want to change everything (15) |
tryst | Meeting in the course of a country stroll (5) |
hip bath | Half-soaked people in this switched on tourist city? (3,4) |