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cardiac | One account supporting the odd character of the heart (7) |
forth bridge | Spanner beginning to rotate, accessing both nuts in kitchen appliance (5,6) |
sea blue | With Elizabeth for queen, Belarus could emerge from the shade (3,4) |
burn ones boats | Take one Bass (Burton brew) and there's no going back (4,4,5) |
aperiodic | Radio epic broadcast irregularly (9) |
vibrio | Very little vigour when one's absorbed bacterium (6) |
stannic | Containing tin, like recycled tin cans? (7) |
ascribed | A writer, having died, gets attributed (8) |
ring out the old | Steptoe's cry topped first of Lord's seasonal line? (4,3,3,3) |
bicuspid | Canine neighbour has vitamin and mineral drops in turn (8) |
soundtrack | Healthy way to compose music (10) |
embryonic | Starting to develop shot by incomer (9) |
gynaecological | Once gay, perhaps with reason to do with women (14) |
sophist | Spot his fallacious reasoning! (7) |
oodles | Pots of parlour pooches p*** off! (6) |
ghanaian | Hang about with a Scot from Africa (8) |
abbey | One was set up for men in order to change baby without embarrassment, initially (5) |
database | Files a bit around foot (8) |
catnapping | Stealing pet that's briefly asleep? (10) |
skipjack | Waste container and lifting mechanism getting a nut turned round? (8) |
academism | Madame is upset about constant adherence to formal rules (9) |
presignify | Indicate future setting of gins, if in quarry (10) |
board games | Go with others abroad - gems found travelling (5,5) |
suds | African country's lacking an alternative word for "froth" (4) |
mad | Mother turns cross (3) |
geronimo | Brave child, for example, rebelling against head of orphanage (8) |
receded | Soldiers gave up and retreated (7) |
glockenspiel | For instrument get secure inside information on pitch (12) |
ski jumpers | We take to the air in the snow (Eskimo's part, Stoppard play) (3,7) |
offing | Part of sea current enters wrong gulf (6) |
wirehair | Spooner's to rent clothing for terrier? (8) |
river wear | Boater, possibly, may be seen in Durham (5,4) |
sockeye | Fish very important in church (7) |
alison | Too protective of one new girl (6) |
gamer | Golf in the morning, let me see one playing (5) |
thriller | Tail of nuthatch in bird book (8) |
petulant | Ratty and Mole holding up a pick-up truck (8) |
bemuse | Fox starts to be evasive, catching birds (6) |
trojan horse | Deception of Raj, or honest deception? (6,5) |
apprentice | A piano duet by Ravel's first to tempt novice (10) |
mantegna | Painter's get-up covered with marvellous food (8) |
rozzer | Police officer solving crossword puzzle - would CPS's letters get ignored? (6) |
lab coat | Labour and Conservative mostly promise medical protection? (3,4) |
embrasure | Opening amber fluid OK (9) |
fly the flag | See that the standard is kept up (3,3,4) |
on shift | No turning back with change in working (2,5) |
respected | Esteemed sappers scanned in shed (9) |
prial | Set of three April fools (5) |
cigarette papers | They case the joints (9,6) |
transylvanian | Vlad, maybe, giving Ann nasty viral disorder (13) |
rio | Time spent by group playing big city (3) |
stoat | Small but perfectly formed animal (5) |
soiled | Made dirty when lubricated with sulphur (6) |
streaky | Bacon's lines may be so described (7) |
hardback | Book robust defender (8) |
aquarius | A sign of where swimmers are finally getting changed (8) |
lambast | Beat a doctor in the final (7) |
hang up | Get off or put on the line (4,2) |
tick | Mark off second account (4) |
towel | Drag queen's heart left drier (5) |
labyrinth | Complex arrangement of railway in Bath (9) |
half tone | BC, for example, in US? (4,4) |
obstetrics | Practice of making personal deliveries (10) |
grimpen | Forbidding the writer (Conan Doyle) a burial place on Dartmoor (7) |
english sickness | A striking affair, not petit mal or rubella? (7,8) |
tie the knot | Make granny form a union? (3,3,4) |
sewage | Refuse to work in needlework period (6) |
available | Girl unusually liable to be had (9) |
aladdin | Magic lamp holder has a line to tack on at home (7) |
wellnigh | Just about to consider interning liberals by name (8) |
good publicity | Waving toy dog, I get people inside - which helps sales! (4,9) |
hartlepool | Where all the poor assemble (10) |
cinema | Came in confused by moving pictures (6) |
peahens | A chap interrupting shuts up birds (7) |
post op | Toilet break after surgery (4,2) |
rekindle | Once more fire in nerd-like fashion (8) |
sub zero | Unknown quantity in terribly sore bum, almost freezing (3,4) |
at one fell swoop | A lone wolf poet's destroyed in a single fierce move (2,3,4,5) |
pranced | Capered, like a follower of Rudolph? (7) |
proscribed | Abridged Plain Words copy editor outlawed (10) |
nastase | Tennis player in hospital - back seat casualty (7) |
great uncle | Relative origin of universe bounded by morphing rectangle (5,5) |
road signs | Cast is so grand for directors (4,5) |
photosynthesis | Flowers keeping warm, last of light shines out - it makes the garden grow (14) |
victorious | Mean to secure prominence first (10) |
sumerian | US marine served in Iraq in former times (8) |
moral | Lesson master put into speech (5) |
disheartened | Down - becoming dn? (12) |
ethene | So spell the end of lead-free gas (6) |
wolf whistles | Few still show coarse male expressions (4,8) |
dogstar | Track celebrity's heavenly body (7) |
sedentary | New Year tends to make us inactive (9) |
fulham | Half - um - out? (6) |
multiform | Various old marines following line in mufti, shabby (9) |
respond | Having to answer, irresolute person initially dithered (7) |
pericles | Greek statesman, caught in danger, gets tips from Eurocrats (8) |
cromer | Capital in credit in Norfolk resort (6) |
carrie | Girl's transport delivered (6) |
sulphate | Repel and be repelled by salt, perhaps (8) |
toffee | He is distinctly superior - heads off everyone else from Everton? (6) |