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grinding | Excessive force putting band round racket (8) |
pose | Suggest being part of strike, so people rise up (4) |
bed warmer | Concocted "dream" brew -- it contributed to cosy kip! (3,6) |
wooer | One trying to gain love of woman with alarmed expression (5) |
italy | Nation, I reckon, disheartened (5) |
cagoule | An attempt to cut faulty clue for waterproof (7) |
mary graham | Form of army biscuit? (4,6) |
kimchi | Not half kick, my chilli pickles (6) |
repute | Standing up, tree collapsed (6) |
tom kitten | Potter book given to king with glove on (3,6) |
tithe | It returns the part the Church keeps (5) |
masseur | Here's the rub: the French crowd wants most of it back (7) |
knoll | Mound where Charles met Cromwell? (5) |
soft centre | Feature of sweet thing that gypsy has inside (4,6) |
stability | By a list it gets impaired? (9) |
smackerel | Fish on pole Pooh had just time for (9) |
puffer | Train serpent not to increase (6) |
uppish | Highly bumptious? (6) |
holding patterns | They have you going in circles around the airport (7,8) |
go spare | Water supply in blood, lose it! (2,5) |
mars bar | Where astronaut may one day get wine and chocolate? (4,3) |
thawed | Heath bearing fruit that's softened (6) |
motor oil | Procedure to agitate film-maker? (5,3) |
golden mean | Principle that's moderate, or humble (6,4) |
overacting | Duck certain to go bad in very good style of ham (10) |
helmet | What man joining police has left on top? (6) |
edgeways | 'Advantage' means 'lateral' (8) |
jibe | Crack judge getting libel case dismissed (4) |
canterbury bells | Seen and heard in a Kentish garden? (10,5) |
steel | Allow leading serf to rise up over English or Scottish baron (5) |
rays | Beams said to be uplifting (4) |
reefs | Nautical hazards means one shortens sail (5) |
fishiest | Odd fetish is most suspect (8) |
newbury | We run by building in Berkshire (7) |
fatness | Health one exchanged for a state of corpulence (7) |
alarm | Signal recalling marines (5) |
sell outs | No seats - full tours - fan sadly missing such events? (4,4) |
red spider | It damages the leaves of roses, leading to wounded pride (3,6) |
have it out | Argue over remedy for an aching tooth (4,2,3) |
bobtail | Animal that follows the ragtag in a rabble (7) |
plumb crazy | Vertical kind of paving is completely senseless to a cowboy (5,5) |
meninges | They protect brains of women in gestation (8) |
winos | Dispirited alcoholics? (5) |
fidget | Dog dropped tail to receive fuss (6) |
sobriquet | Handle something on the barbecue, very much on top (9) |
tyrants | Totally heartless diatribes from dictators (7) |
beckon | Invite approach, running after stream (6) |
shards | Difficult to break into small, small pieces (6) |
fatwa | Overweight women given a death sentence (5) |
bureaucrat | Official in Foreign Office about to divulge secrets (10) |
drum | Democratic spirit that is beaten (4) |
woodshed | Moved like the wind around end of haunted outhouse (8) |
au contraire | A recruit on a manoeuvre? Not at all! (2,9) |
took stock | Assessed situation of a Hobbit clan (4,5) |
dung heaps | No good stopping awful “heads up” for business gatherings (4,5) |
wirer | Writer's lost time working for one on the Telegraph (5) |
abelia | Could be, inter alia, a honeysuckle (6) |
dread | Adder may give rise to terror (5) |
up a tree | In difficulties, but not grounded? (2,1,4) |
space invaders | Alien advances ripe, start to shoot - in this? (5,8) |
browbeaten | Bullied ex-PM about pound taking lead from euro (10) |
freighter | Note carried by plane or ship (9) |
we are not amused | Women used a tear causing a royal response (2,3,3,6) |
peach | Supergrass? (5) |
oleander | Shrub that's unproductive when in flower (8) |
behind time | Late, it turns in after me (6,4) |
broadens | Develops a way through mountains (8) |
bin bag | Talk to writer about rubbish setting? (3,3) |
elector | Shocking treatment in part upset old prince (7) |
flies blind | What pilot does when seeing problematic rubbish bins filled (5,5) |
the crab | Bather unexpectedly catching cold is a sign of cancer (3,4) |
wigwam | Cover for brave slaphead's accessory, cosy but not right (6) |
blue gum | Stick next to low tree (4,3) |
shatter | Wreck that's broken up with little hesitation (7) |
ample | First drops in wood more than adequate (5) |
liberates | Delivers lectures after colleague's third one (9) |
guy rope | The chap's run out with exercises used with canvas (3,4) |
clear up | Solve a mystery and become brighter (5,2) |
drop | Cut a dash (4) |
mourning | Grief soundly finished by lunch? (8) |
al jolson | Heavily made-up singer J. Lo also changed name (2,6) |
funereal | Amusing queen brewed ale that's dark (8) |
every | Each is ruefully discontented after night before (5) |
putter | Golf club with parking, say (6) |
hepcat | Swinger exercising no discrimination during arousal (6) |
forget oneself | Act altruistically, but lose control (6,7) |
dig deep | Swim round source of great river, having to draw on one's reserves (3,4) |
spoors | Destitute on board making tracks (6) |
asystole | It's bad for circulation of mobile toy sales (8) |
pathogenic | Notice gap in organisation - hospital cuts could cause disease (10) |
lucknow | Fortune presently in besieged city (7) |
bumptious | Seat up, so it moves forward (9) |
stowmarket | Workmates take time out in East Anglia (10) |
shamanic | Maniacs casually imbibing last of Scotch of dealer in spirits (8) |
civil list | Polite inclination to support royalty (5,4) |
elfin | Dainty morsel of mackerel, finely sliced (5) |
ports | Paddy raised sockets (5) |
avalanche | A snowdrop? (9) |
the evil eye | You must be on base - you look likely to be frightening (3,4,3) |
clubhouse | Golf property round bush, somehow, in tip? (9) |