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endowment | Contract women tend to break (9) |
fell in | Film director, finally failing, took place in the ranks (4,2) |
retainers | Those who keep servants (9) |
camouflage | Hide male in a foul cage after beating (10) |
wise up | Something a bit hairy about community we're leaving? Get better informed! (4,2) |
lay a finger on | Only fearing a clumsy touch (3,1,6,2) |
amorally | A doctor's meeting (loosely) (8) |
dues | Charges straight for pole position? (4) |
morisot | Impressionist causing upset to treacher during assembly (7) |
groggy | Dazed and unsteady Greek cat, not male (6) |
racecards | They give information for meeting people: funny people! (9) |
red duster | Flag - Reuters wrong about dates (3,6) |
sorceress | Witch or goddess on board (9) |
mainsheet | The means I contrived to control the sail (9) |
trottoir | Left-winger with disturbance coming up on the pavement (8) |
welder | He joins up in the heat of the moment (6) |
pollen | Vote on a couple of points that may need to be counted (6) |
dreamier | I err, made drunk and getting more vague (8) |
gas turbine | Nature's big, bad engine (3,7) |
keelhaul | Carpet a university residence, say? (8) |
spills the beans | Engineer passes bill, then discloses something confidential (6,3,5) |
a far cry | Long distance call out? (1,3,3) |
darn | Curse and blast without ever ending (4) |
ride | Travel free on first excursion (4) |
solidarity | Group feeling royalist out to conceal documents (10) |
dust jacket | Novel cover canonised ripper in song (4,6) |
hanuman | Monkey, one protected by higher species? (7) |
treater | Dealer in a generous mood? (7) |
lacquerer | One putting on coat presents a pound bill: odd? About right (9) |
kneading | Requiring sound massage (8) |
avocado | The colour of a case briefly laid on a fleece (7) |
thornbush | May the "Thunderer" note 'ow quiet it is! (9) |
dickensian | Squalid sink transformed with a nice bit of disinfectant (10) |
peppercorn | Spray painful area, which is hot (10) |
bistre | Brown gravy unfinished, red unfinished (6) |
foam at the mouth | Get really cross at barber's carelessness! (4,2,3,5) |
nanna | Direction taken by Karenina, one of the family (5) |
allowing | Admitting everyone is in arrears (8) |
menswear | Worn by people on oath (8) |
skimmed | Read superficially, Kipling tale is set in southern sea (7) |
dinosaur | Sport help given to cover child-rearing by one out of touch (8) |
recycled | Embarrassed about vehicle that's used again (8) |
affluence | Being well off, a criminal suppresses illness (9) |
double bass | Instrument requiring twice as much sound foundation (6,4) |
flavour | Taste a little lamb in something curried (7) |
latch on | Cotton on cloth (an alteration) (5,2) |
swank | Grand royal bird meeting king (5) |
pharaonic | As old leaders of poverty hit and repressively armed oil nation in crisis (9) |
becomes | Types to buzz around firm, primarily managers or "suits" (7) |
perfect tense | Ideal drawn from the past, grammatically speaking (7,5) |
trepanner | Surgeon given sixpence outside the theatre (9) |
rotary | Turning out friendless portrayal (6) |
rectorial | Trojan 'ero in retreat returned like Stephen Fry at Dundee (9) |
brideshead | New union member's boss booked family accommodation (10) |
amassed | A transmitter, we hear, that's collected (7) |
irritative | Girl, one shut in the box in anger, causing anxiety (10) |
dislodge | Take out girl's deposit (8) |
thrones | Shades cover personnel facilities (7) |
pestilence | Steps involved in money for something needing a cure (10) |
bonus | Premium book about the country (5) |
imposture | I myself hold Proust novel to be a sham (9) |
heathens | Idolaters he meets somewhere in Greece (8) |
populate | Provide inhabitants for the head without half the wealth (8) |
mainstay | Support for parent during visit (8) |
circlet | Cleric's tight, transitive headband (7) |
furlong | Characteristic of Persian cat in the distance? (7) |
nailing | Driving a point home, Newton is out of order (7) |
box brownie | Fight with fairy for camera (3,7) |
prurience | Filthy sport heading for receivership, one beset by money which is filthy (9) |
dismiss | Sack young lady after insult (7) |
tearaway | Hooligan needs drink, always swallowing bitter (8) |
second rate | Poor actor needs play (6,4) |
lugubrious | Mournful guru catches bus with oil sprinkled around (10) |
villainy | It's bad in a futile year for crime (8) |
lanzarote | Canary, one that sang tenor parrot-fashion? (9) |
jehovahs witness | So his Jews haven't converted? (8,7) |
latter | The second drink ending in disaster (6) |
mailboat | Postal packet going overseas (8) |
umpired | Was judge imprudent, rashly ignoring last couple? (7) |
singhalese | Ridiculously easy, almost English language (10) |
assayer | I prove the fool a philosopher (7) |
nellies | Silly people regularly unveil inventions (7) |
implants | Setter's line in trousers and chest expanders? (8) |
panamanian | Native to criticise a fellow Scot? (10) |
autocycle | Transport from the occult? Aye, so it is (9) |
sinews | Strong tissues with boring functions (6) |
catastrophe | Reserves among players right to hope trouble's a disaster? (11) |
argy bargy | Gray鈥檚 works (in two volumes?) contain opening of Byzantine controversy (4,5) |
shakeable | Marten eats fish that can be agitated (9) |
greasy spoon | Trucker's favourite person's Goya, surprisingly (6,5) |
quicksands | Hazard on coast also seen in boat joining fleet (10) |
arapaho | Oh! A Red Beret's ascending: that's brave! (7) |
elks | Fraternal order of molluscs lacking two dimensions (4) |
get at able | Being possible to reach, successfully phone restaurant (3,2,4) |
bosoms | Imbecile finally promises end to continuous boom and bust (6) |
white admiral | Butterfly unfortunate with heart of Pinkerton, a naval officer (5,7) |
feministic | Iron skirts? Time, I see, to be demanding women's rights (10) |
one time | Former clue for IT? (3,4) |
ohmage | Husband stepping back in show of respect - or resistance? (6) |
ligatures | Large suit being woven gets slurs (9) |