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mauls | Savages bad housing that holds area back (5) |
giraffe | Throw back the clothes, half-affected with my long neck? (7) |
mass media | Service mostly average? Press for example (4,5) |
spat | Quarrel and turn lights out! (4) |
wonders | Is curious about seven world phenomena (7) |
vindicator | One justifies V-sign (10) |
orb | Boatman's out of drink in a round (3) |
marrakech | African city, where tool wielded in demonstration (9) |
handgrip | Worker's control of portable luggage? (8) |
grating | Note counting is so tiresome! (7) |
ogles | Make sighs, say, to do as the wolf does! (5) |
gerrymander | Manipulate lines in German with the appropriate article (11) |
sherry party | Drinks do make Blair sound Conservative? (6,5) |
senselessly | Understands about grinding lens with cunning, but without reason (11) |
lacklustre | Not bright enough to tackle slur indirectly (10) |
refits | Makes ready for use again in harder, heartless round (6) |
effrontery | Lip gloss? (10) |
pyrenees | Burner for body spotted coming up from the range (8) |
buffer | Boatswain's mate found at the end of the line (6) |
voice over | Active or passive past, heard but not seen (5,4) |
crossbill | Bird half-covered in crumpled scrolls (9) |
sine curve | Wave from Victor in easy position (4,5) |
equable | Not easily disturbed when it leaves fair (7) |
rails | Birds barred on the racecourse (5) |
go west | Advice to ambitious young man - "get lost!" (2,4) |
soda jerk | US barman serves awkward customer - a Yank (4,4) |
linear | Like A or B, for example, or the shortest distance between them (6) |
gynaecologist | Specialist sending back anything that's not thin and green (13) |
motion | Poet in whom poetry? (6) |
tip offs | Leaked info set back work during disputes (3,4) |
casing | Before robbery, looking over enclosure (6) |
twirly | Going round the twist prematurely, it's casually suggested? (6) |
moravia | Gunners pursuing doctor through Czech region (7) |
pogrom | Persecution of Englishman drinking lots of grog (6) |
lauren bacall | Film star Stan grasps note on a state (6,6) |
oscar peterson | Perhaps Ackroyd's performing after prestigious award for piano virtuoso (5,8) |
peripheral | Quiet goddess in jeopardy on the fringe (10) |
security | Collateral damage done to city user (8) |
set screws | Bits of machine put on ship with sailors aboard (3,6) |
yellowy | Like a lemon chicken, yummy at either end (7) |
gored | Did Pierce blush? (5) |
fibreless | Weak in character but would then be truthful over the more important? (9) |
cantankerously | Prison ship: lousy, revolting in a bad-tempered way (14) |
goujon | Thug eating up junket for starters - it's coated in breadcrumbs (6) |
squares up | Settles, or prepares to fight (7,2) |
tide over | See through end of telescope in port after it's set up (4,4) |
wendish | Hope to restrict the downfall of a language (7) |
monokini | Compiler abroad with no relatives incarcerated, having bust out with this? (8) |
enamel | European title ending for rival, tough finish! (6) |
high | Chief under the influence (4) |
ascertain | Discover a canister at sea (9) |
tearfully | Those like yourselves initially absorbing a reprimand with a wet face (9) |
winnow | Secure immediate victory with blow (6) |
ice pan | Floater, one joining church to criticise (3,3) |
exarch | Dignitary of Roman Church about to get the chop before ... (6) |
panda | Indulge, say, an animal seen at the zoo (5) |
vodka | It's still produced in Russia (5) |
impersonates | Does rascal show on TV small round bottom? (12) |
fines herbes | Lots of sweet powder in brandy's flavouring (5,6) |
smitten | In love and almost ecstatic holding hand (7) |
diocletian | Roman emperor, regularly ignoring advisor, called time on Scotsman (10) |
sticky situation | Jam? (6,9) |
importunes | Is a solicitor involved in resumption? (10) |
secretive | Release includes one volume that's reserved (9) |
clitoris | Clubs turned on men - is private part for woman? (8) |
enlivener | Animator goes offline for a lot of worship (9) |
first slip | Fielder makes initial mistake (5,4) |
idle gossip | But it keeps tongues busy! (4,6) |
stickle | Be punctilious having to get back for the fish (7) |
hetero | Straight used car improperly disposed of from converted terraced house (6) |
shop soiled | Betrays drunk - the worse from exposure (4,6) |
franc | Managed football club without money from abroad (5) |
ethylene | They adapted the French neon to another gas (8) |
hair | Hard song to follow in old musical (4) |
magma | Molten material's reduced periodical state (5) |
pompadour | Splendour pursued by a grim French mistress (9) |
licensees | Local managers (9) |
quarantine | Isolation: it could be found in an old apple orchard (10) |
transporter | Vehicle used to carry people away (11) |
polanski | Film director's half of winter sport gear (ends of tie cord separately removed) (8) |
overuse | Repeat too much love poetry around university (7) |
driving range | Place for swingers? Taking the car key in the middle, getting kinky gran (7,5) |
wolfram | Two animals seen here in their element (7) |
swivelled | Turned and sniffed as son finally left for a week (9) |
evian | Iodine content in Welshman's mineral water (5) |
kate greenaway | Illustrator redraws Yankee with a wet rag (4,9) |
portal vein | Left a large English home? Against cuts? A blood vessel pops out (6,4) |
albert chevalier | The "watch chain" French knight, star of the old music halls (6,9) |
fistful | Amount of fancy stiff upper lip, for starters (7) |
willis | Fixity of purpose is needed by fast bowler, as before (6) |
ransack | What wine smuggler did to get rifle (7) |
honey bee | Collector equipped with buzzer (5,3) |
graceful | Old cricketer fellow at University left with elegance (8) |
brewed | Made tea for the family, say (6) |
i am sorry | Apology from Williams or Ryan (1,2,5) |
ulan bator | Resort banal? Tour is capital! (4,5) |
tourmaline | Travel round African country, northeastern gem (10) |
hesitated | Was not keen to take exam without being warmed up (9) |
daytime | Tide may change between sunrise and sunset (7) |
accipitrine | Hawkish marine, left motherless after accident, has another depression (11) |