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office | Not liking formality in the workplace (6) |
yclept | Once called to exercise on a bike, first to fall off (6) |
sisyphean | He sips any cocktail that's hard and fruitless (9) |
reloaded | Put in charge again (8) |
powys | Prisoners keep start of year in Wales (5) |
powerboat | AB has towrope prepared for the vessel (9) |
aqueduct | Roman water-carrier (8) |
beefcake | Adonis lowers bar (8) |
do down | Democratic Party bores have to cheat (2,4) |
parry | Standard lines of rebuff (5) |
halidom | The Queen installing a swimming pool in a sacred spot (7) |
caledonia | Scotland starts criticising English fellow, inter alia (9) |
rheotrope | Would-be hero left up end of handle, which reverses the current (9) |
laugh like a drain | Kill a guardian and he, staggeringly, can just fall about (5,4,1,5) |
flimsy | Thin female, horribly slimy (6) |
measure up | Writer joining a certain Pixar film to attain a standard … (7,2) |
day nursery | One doesn't care for sprouts after dark? (3,7) |
spring upon | Suddenly put in the know, quietly call in child (6,4) |
soft going | With this ground condition, hope to get hoe (4,5) |
disown | Deny row about broadcast (6) |
stilleto | Shoe seen in messy toilet behind street (8) |
tincture | Metal cruet cast a slight shade (8) |
idles | Paid less, nurse doesn't work hard (5) |
skerry | Isle in South Tralee's environs (6) |
workmates | Firm friends? (9) |
dwellings | Racket involving completely empty glass houses (9) |
plutarch | Classic author of animated character, not altogether superior (8) |
landsman | Inexperienced seafarer comes ashore on island (8) |
laurels | US city rules out poet's crown (7) |
red pandas | Bamboo shoot eaters specifically Maoist? (3,6) |
bully | Cow, like her mate? (5) |
kitwe | Equipment for partners in the Copper Belt (5) |
new labour | Another Blair babe on the way? (3,6) |
day release | Educational set-up gives challenge over year - then learner's given peace (3,7) |
rookies | New members give bookmakers a new start (7) |
ship canal | Quick look round in Hollywood location recalled a feature of Manchester (4,5) |
medication | Remedy for cold found in good offices (10) |
forsook | Left small ducks in toaster (7) |
roll top | Some bread on better sort of desk (4,3) |
drove | What people did in Land Rovers (5) |
finale | The last appearance of the RAF in Alexandria (6) |
implementing | Executing rogue, sorrowful earl replaces head of axe (12) |
presentableness | Smart quality of gift fit to go on head (15) |
has kittens | Is extremely upset (tackle's caught in flies) (3,7) |
mozambique | Second country almost adjoins that French country (10) |
impaling | Setter's finding moose hunter's good for sticking (8) |
besetting sin | Bad habit, live at last light if I were you? (9,3) |
team mate | Cooked meats provided for fellow member on the side (4,4) |
good in parts | Pastor doing wrong is far from completely OK (4,2,5) |
oban | Scottish port where anything goes? (4) |
ferry | Transfer between banks (5) |
bust | Broke, having almost to beg on street (4) |
realms | Regions unite concerning charity (6) |
breathe | Inspire soldiers to swim outside (7) |
shrew | Mouse-like creature playfully tamed? (5) |
divine right | Guess correctly what some kings used to claim (6,5) |
expounding | Setting out virtues of joining euro? (10) |
breech | Breaking of the law, say, concerning gun part (6) |
fess | Ordinary muddle when female ousts male (4) |
eremitic | Reclusive boy taking issue to heart (8) |
bush telegraph | Presidential intelligence at work? (4,9) |
tweeny | Servant's quarter has very little about it (6) |
stumbled | Came a cropper in slum: debt is a problem (8) |
first gear | Nappies in which to climb hills? (5,4) |
tulle | Material uni students gathered during half-term (5) |
hacking jacket | Is it worn after smoking one? (7,6) |
silly point | Foolish direction for a fieldsman (5,5) |
urban | Ancient city prohibition applies to all cities (5) |
free pardon | Being generous in giving mean Mafioso unconditional forgiveness (4,6) |
abaci | Artificial intelligence, holding degree: key to manufacturing old computers (5) |
hash sign | Food mark seen on US numbered list? (4,4) |
proof read | There's nothing in academic study fit for publication (5,4) |
hessian | Coarse material from a Nazi leader? (7) |
catarrhous | Suffering from cold, maybe curator has shivers (10) |
caterpillars | Tractors! The bane of the Greens (12) |
cashmere | Stuff obtainable for ready money only (8) |
fact | Rich with a hundred, in truth (4) |
eerier | English monarch repeatedly admitting one stranger (6) |
gadgetry | Device making regulars out of guards' great army (8) |
recon | An American's observation of cheat, not for the first time (5) |
before | Support the rear at the front (6) |
xenophobes | They're certainly not ET fans (10) |
sherbet dip | Sweet Queen Elizabeth, perhaps, protecting herself, Elizabeth and daughter (7,3) |
triangular | Like warning signs Alan Turing devised, changing number for radius (10) |
doctor crippen | Killer piano in Prince cover potentially, if you were to do this (6,7) |
reluctance | Holding back lecture can upset (10) |
bed of nails | No false bid concocted for difficult job (3,2,5) |
going down | Setting award blocked by Nutmeg not working (5,4) |
raconteurs | Royal courtesan condemned yarn spinners (10) |
resting | Soldier hurt still (7) |
trepanned | Salesman wearing brown is bored in theatre (9) |
ireful | Angry, if rule is broken (6) |
arisen | Cropped up in some Paris engagement (6) |
showplace | Retail outlet stocking occidental fabric in the gallery (9) |
krummhorn | 'twas blown as gloom lifted from hearts ere noon (9) |
libation | Offering freedom without hesitation (8) |
glister | Brilliance of a good surgeon? (7) |
man to man | Reciprocally, an island to provide with defenders in fight, ... (3,2,3) |
numeral | Short book with real lively character (7) |
threesome | Triumvirate you need time to look up in a book (9) |