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see off | Drive away from Tennessee office (3,3) |
egg tempera | Medium reggae tempo, endlessly changing (3,7) |
rain check | Invitation postponed when sewer inspection fails to start (4,5) |
blur | Band of cloud (4) |
fountainhead | Source of retired aunt's tailored, fashionable top (12) |
vegetation | Flora vetoing tea break (10) |
endowing | Willing to finish in debt (8) |
peter rabbit | Land amid a lot of stones: it was chronicled by Potter (5,6) |
alfresco | Scale for winds in the open air (8) |
monopoly | Cornered market for magic herb bearing no flower (8) |
lindbergh | Flier got hind leg partially broken by accident (9) |
trickless | Trounced at cards, being incapable of cheating? (9) |
plight ones troth | Torch burning amid plague and corruption gets hospital to make a commitment (6,4,5) |
poisonous | Very nasty soup I soon replaced (9) |
oliver twist | Dickensian served vitriol stew (6,5) |
fasten | Close to a way through the marshland (6) |
encapsulate | Place a tune's provenance and describe succinctly (11) |
behaves | To live with the wealthy is good (7) |
nebulas | Clouds of particles and gas obscure bus lane (7) |
sternpost | Rudder support, harsh job (9) |
handels largo | Len's goal hard to convert - but it's a memorable score (7,5) |
nautilus | Just a shell until USA converted it into a nuclear sub (8) |
downgrade | Move from A to B and awkwardly drag blue English cases (9) |
buy a pup | Purchase a young animal, fleeced (3,1,3) |
clog | Unimportant employee guarding Latin block (4) |
lanza | Singer left most of troops from down under (5) |
endangers | Risks of heat in terminals (9) |
hair slide | Lock securer putting Irish criminals finally in a particular compound (4,5) |
spamalot | Musical predicament inspiring prayer, looking back (8) |
bottom of the poll | Parrot's tail getting the fewest votes? (6,2,3,4) |
overtired | It's plain - setter's bloody exhausted! (9) |
rasp | Jar for a kind of berry (4) |
homonym | Funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? (7) |
iguanodon | Big old crawler West Indian soldier deserts, in the red in business (9) |
bracelet | Couple hire out jewellery (8) |
feet of clay | Hidden faults among Ali's supporters? (4,2,4) |
mahonia | Constituents of water in craze for shrub (7) |
arising | Matters from minutes ? something wrong in a sailing layout? (7) |
thicken | Kitchen order: stir in flour, possibly (7) |
the depths | Article on government branch by cabinet minister: "Low point of misery!" (3,6) |
moderators | They control debates, including way speakers start off (10) |
honey mouthed | Sweet-talking sharpened: you go in with them, sadly (5,7) |
disembowel | Draw mob and see wild mayhem (10) |
pasadena | Father with pathetic girl in California city (8) |
holes in one | Successes never achieved by two-stroke drivers? (5,2,3) |
arthurs seat | Day in hole at the bottom of Auld Reekie? (7,4) |
paderewski | Premier pianist indulging in weird speak (10) |
kennelled | In the doghouse with Kenneth, Eleanor and the editor (9) |
go carts | Cargo transported up small road in small fast vehicles (2,5) |
tom jones | Books about Joyce's first working title (3,5) |
sedated | Starts to smoke, eventually saw someone tranquillised (7) |
wrinkle | Gasteropod taking right line (7) |
beauties | Dandy draws pretty girls (8) |
menopauses | Soldiers use soap, all lathered up, for changes (10) |
cynical | Bitter controversy on both sides at tax payable - albeit cut back (7) |
bunsen burner | One sitting on the bench gets set alight by the match? (6,6) |
landing net | Thrashing tail of salmon tangled in angler's equipment (7,3) |
amnion | Baby wrap an omnishambles (6) |
tribe | Race of noble birth, some from the south (5) |
spab | It protects our heritage from worsening odds. Boatman supports it (4) |
spam | Annoying messages upset plans (4) |
keep | Look over fortification (4) |
slothful | Lazy, like a creature with three toes (8) |
regiments | Setter's in park with soldiers (9) |
hellas | Dislike Greece? (6) |
actinea | Bill gets skin disease, reportedly from sea anemone (7) |
ranchers | Farmers managed half-hearted thanks (8) |
lays into | Tyson and Ali involved in punches (4,4) |
shekel | Female monarch given the Spanish monetary unit (6) |
lanolin | Tips of nectarine and orange, all cooking in fat (7) |
temptresses | Work without security on locks for sirens (11) |
theorem | Article more unlikely, it being unproven? (7) |
squeegee | Picture, framing one with many subjects almost good, cleaner (8) |
al capone | Gangster, head covered, is in the drink ... (2,6) |
nestorius | Heretic Tories naughtily invading student organisation (9) |
mandates | Maybe king seeks romance, giving orders (8) |
a taste of honey | Play sonata with feet only, your hands initially being incapacitated (1,5,2,5) |
tepee | Bring up Fido, say, with ease, say, in Sioux dwelling (5) |
ladybird | One's spotted women, genteel and otherwise (8) |
stake | Post of interest (5) |
sum total | All told, twice (3,5) |
swished | A quarter wanted to be flogged (7) |
patent leather | Planet earth - ET runs off to hide when finished (6,7) |
seventeenths | Fractions of number in choppers to put on uniform on board (12) |
starosta | Horoscope includes love, thanks to noble Pole (8) |
cadenza | Port in Czech Republic initially allowing free passage for musician? (7) |
studded | Relieved by the bosses? (7) |
eye to eye | What people of equal stature agree to see? (3,2,3) |
o henry | Lines in support of love by female author (1,5) |
cracks | Tells these jokes (6) |
frosties | Possible McDonalds order: "wraps, large tea (each to go) and cereal" (8) |
greenhouse | Effect of using energy endlessly playing bingo (10) |
clock tower | Time will be on its side (5,5) |
restraining hand | Support wet crewman controlling aid (11,4) |
premeditated | Planned quietly and put right without the rubbish (12) |
testes | Some privates switched positions (6) |
epistasis | Spite re-engendered when one's discharge is thus prevented (9) |
thanked | When one man came in, another was grateful (7) |
felt tip pen | Writer considered trading in Porsche, originally open-topped (4,3,3) |
seascape | One of the art gallery's main exhibits (8) |