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This may be an advantage when one is in court (4,5)
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Into mug, start to spit part of tooth (4)
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Churchman’s ticket home to Alabama (8)
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Gatherings of heartless adults (6)
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Left in high temperature, hot toast (6)
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Supposedly popular assumption (2,6)
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Dick parking in Italian city (6)
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Stride along and dare to jump about like a bloodhound (3-5)
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Enormous wife going on one leg (8)
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Excellent from end of tail to head (6)
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Aircraft finally cancelled, chap sounding mournful (8)
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Religiously set aside as hard to let (6)
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Follower of Churchill emerges from battle, exhausted (6)
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Holy book, short, was liable to be made longer (8)
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Old city that attracted ten years of investment (4)
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Vegetarian period of Cleopatra’s youth (5,4)
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The opposite of a long after-dinner speech? (5)
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Part of vehicle showing dirt – panic! (7)
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Puppet hit the drink (5)
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I shall twice hide whiskey, out of spite (3,4)
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Difficulty getting undergarment to reach stomach (5,4)
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Infectious disease? Arrest her, is the call (7)
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Batman say may be out of our sphere (9)
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Pad raised armrest? (9)
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Top-ranked tennis player, small and quiet (9)
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Ref’s decision may be fine (7)
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Understand our team will recover (3,4)
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On plate, toyed with mush (7)
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Felt revulsion for wrong order for death (5)
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Premonitions women silently suppress (5)
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