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cynosures | Very Big Apple written up in parish priest's objects of admiration (9) |
metaphor | A figure of speech satisfied a figure in speech (8) |
entrees | Dishes made with roots of green plants (7) |
hard earned | Could be hand-reared by the sweat of one's brow (4,6) |
toroid | Figure to rouse fashion designer (6) |
makes the running | Gets away early to take home sensational coats for the lady (5,3,7) |
each | Every single part of a river bar its source (4) |
gumboil | Endlessly sick after soup which hurts one's mouth (7) |
marble arch | Tramp entertaining British king in Tube station (6,4) |
troupes | Performers' bad posture (7) |
smothers | Conceals kinky sex with rest (8) |
partnership | Sharing stripper? Nah, that's gross (11) |
ring of fire | Cash standard in unstable Pacific region (4,2,4) |
mexican waves | Signals from Javier Hernandez causing repeated unrest in crowd? (7,5) |
boneless | Might fish be second rate, sole off? (8) |
prolixly | Professional lady accepting kiss with a lot of tongue (8) |
neutral | An Ulster deployment, initially starting out impartial (7) |
situation vacant | Open post? (9,6) |
yellow | Hue and cry at the town centre (6) |
slobbish | Dirty and unkempt American bastard keeping liberal cleric out of work (8) |
gremial | Find me a girl to sit on the bishop's knee (7) |
small potatoes | Chats of little significance (5,8) |
drawback | Clue to foster-child's disadvantage? (8) |
plywood | Work at court on dead boarding (7) |
hydrofoil | Marine transport ordered for a lost holiday (9) |
stagecraft | Where to land with boat as taught by Rada? (10) |
dor | Three at front of school bedroom finding beetle (3) |
free lunch | Cheerful end to negotiation after manoeuvring - an impossible treat? (4,5) |
wide sargasso sea | Novel offering idle talk and desperate message, each after portentous time in conflict (4,8,3) |
hard hat | Stag holding out had requirement for building site (4,3) |
editorship | Mr Rusbridger's joint superintendency (10) |
paladins | Boy and I in children's game knocked over champions (8) |
immigrate | Come in, I'm travelling both ways with great excitement (9) |
kalends | Vegetable with no date's a date ... (7) |
reading | University study (7) |
goatherd | Keeper of hardy animals is an unlikely dog-hater (8) |
wound up | Finished in a state of agitation (5,2) |
prefab | House of lead: fear melting within (6) |
get round | Cajole alien, within reason (3,5) |
wimbledon tennis | Women's Lib intend to rally for court appearances (9,6) |
abridgment | Not everything that was written about game bird by conservation body (10) |
bill bryson | Byron's composition brought to account by writer (4,6) |
claque | Paid admirers in the audience: many heard wanting (6) |
astonished | Dumbfounded by a dishonest arrangement (10) |
mess up | Ruin meal at university (4,2) |
ones oar in | Put this to intrude with no one reason, perhaps (4,3,2) |
find | Track down a heartless devil (4) |
sweeney todd | Having taken a lot of demerara rum, marshal admitted murderer (7,4) |
realpolitikers | Pragmatic campaigners brutally kill parties 'ero (14) |
shingle | Rocky English beach (7) |
egoistical | Is nervous affliction in the East End selfish? (10) |
wormhole | One's bored, not having broken up - there's nothing jolly in that! (8) |
gypsy | Nomad housed by dodgy psychiatrist (5) |
attenuated | Two hours before midnight a duet may be cut (10) |
embassy | Where a snooker sponsor once showed diplomacy? (7) |
stellate | Looking like a star with stuff in show? The opposite (8) |
hosts | Welcomes huge numbers (5) |
statelet | Announce holiday cottage available in Andorra for one (8) |
clawback | Talk loudly about West Bromwich Albion's recovery? (8) |
hitchcock | Director has trouble with lift (9) |
gets going | Wins with standard moves (4,5) |
ergonomic | Thus no tailless vermin is designed for efficiency (9) |
ridden | Managed to clear shelter (6) |
gelatin | Coming unstuck, genital glue (7) |
semper fidelis | Upset, if miler's speed remains unwavering (6,7) |
aston villa | No vista all round from this side (5,5) |
armageddon | "_______ outta here!" It's war! (10) |
tougher | Harder time getting old? How repugnant for the Queen (7) |
typists | Office workers found to be tipsy, swooning over good man (7) |
capella | Star's sleeveless garment lifted completely (7) |
provided | Lent on condition (8) |
i for one | Brendan at least provided more money, apart from tips (1,3,3) |
stools | Old Bob impresses designs on seats (6) |
lattice | "Line the loft" (Energy Grid) (7) |
veneto | Event that's revolutionised old part of Italy (6) |
tool | Contrivance for raising dosh (4) |
liver spots | Survivors getting a large amount of money in old marks? (5,5) |
clarions | Instruments show gases and particles (8) |
easy going | Relaxed and informal - though hard on the way back? (4,5) |
spangles | Special angels, crackers and decorations (8) |
fortress | Strong point in favour of long hair (8) |
1o1t | Little woman and officer get a shock (4) |
nutmeg | Boatman finally presses mute with debut of Ginger Spice (6) |
drains | Runaway affairs? (6) |
prepense | Writer among peers with diversion that's intentional (8) |
overreact | Lose a sense of proportion when soldiers tuck into ham (9) |
bric a brac | Odds and ends conveyed by branch to motoring organisation in one taxi (4,1,4) |
stratford | River's rising around derelict fort in theatrical place (9) |
haugh | Scottish meadow, hectare, that's horrible (5) |
flashpoint | Delicate situation where tree and river are set in stone (10) |
serf | The old labourer's endlessly cheeky in return (4) |
retrievers | Dogs soak end of nose in wet things (10) |
overstep | Go beyond how speed cameras look to record (8) |
meth | Came across hard drug (4) |
the coast is clear | Indication of a good beach - no danger in sight (3,5,2,5) |
hits home | Strikes a chord, having screwed this in (4,4) |
regent street | Soldier takes time touring chap's plant in London (6,6) |
burst | Pop runs in front of lady (5) |
gable end | Old actor put the kibosh on side wall (5,3) |
sigismund | Old emperor is buried in Romberg (9) |