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spahi | Cavalryman's second hip replacement with advanced insertion (5) |
raceme | Flower arrangement for relaxed cream tea? No thanks! (6) |
darkens | Clouds over rescue vessel impeding retreats (7) |
magic flute | Instrument in opera, after publication, I compare with another (5,5) |
recite | Read out list of ingredients quietly - lost for time (6) |
pamper | Mollycoddle agent - plan coming up (6) |
recessed | Took a break and made an impression (8) |
gavottes | Dance music mostly performed before argument arises (8) |
distanced | Detached view, previously one held by theologian (9) |
giotto | Painter, soldier and engineer (6) |
strung | Good man telephoned after being tied up (6) |
tick off | Reprimand means no further credit will be given (4,3) |
mastermind | Plan mother's time at home with daughter (10) |
wine shop | Show pine's wrong in a bodega (4,4) |
otiose | Ten toes spread out with no purpose (6) |
shadows | Lady of Shallot was half sick of Richard's old backers (7) |
spawn | Give birth, warranting opening of Spanish hock (5) |
bused | Coached British and took drugs (5) |
damages | Consequence of libel "Mum's getting long in the tooth"? (7) |
cross over | Incensed by having to change banks? (5,4) |
rockefeller | US philanthropist is tower of strength taking English bloke in tow (11) |
cattle market | Stock exchange (6,6) |
threads | Passes thin line through series of linked posts (7) |
gramsci | Jersey etc under weight, according to Marxist writer (7) |
on impulse | Smile upon frolic that's spontaneous (2,7) |
maypoles | Festive erections - symptom oddly not seen in men (8) |
monkey | Cash, about a grand and a half? (6) |
dolomite | Mineral water at last stolen from room - it led to move (8) |
shopping | Giving away recently purchased goods (8) |
soldier | OAP guarded by senior army man (7) |
atones | Notes a mistake and makes amends (6) |
crack | Rock fissure (5) |
clarence | Boy and girl formerly out of love (8) |
typewrote | "Sort rubbish? We must go outside" - put down characters without script? (9) |
litigable | It's possibly a suit likely to dress fool up (9) |
himalaya | Informal greeting welcoming in two states from the range (8) |
peak | What kept princess awake? The king's crown (4) |
navies | A struggle between North and South Sea forces (6) |
avoidable | A useless fit can be prevented (9) |
impostor | Philistine's job, on the other hand, is a fake (8) |
parody | Stick in money for imitation (6) |
get behind | Lose time offering support (3,6) |
red dragon | Provocative material including first of data on a monster flagged up? (3,6) |
close up | Large scale picture of what some flowers do at night (5,2) |
attraction | Erotic experience is a drag, we're told (10) |
stevedore | Worker's first wife died in shop (9) |
telemark | Mere talk describes this turn in skiing (8) |
risking | Living dangerously, the last refusnik joined rebellion (7) |
blue bonnet | Scots peasant goes on ahead, if spaced (4,6) |
stand to | Order to troops to prepare for action - reason may follow (5,2) |
gorcock | Grouse about crook getting the George Cross (7) |
skin deep | Superficial variety in Bath and Wells, say, and first of all in Portishead (4,4) |
umbrella stand | Guillotine cart guillotined finally and it takes put-up jobs (8,5) |
franglais | Something pour le weekend in this? (9) |
rio grande | Borderline Wayne western (3,6) |
befell | Resulted in bell ringing loud note (6) |
hornpipe | Sailors' constant anticipation about a dance (8) |
monarchies | Chap engaged in battle with Denmark, Sweden, Norway etc (10) |
redactions | Editors can make them (10) |
larboard | Fat pig entered and left (8) |
monkey nuts | Ground breakers from Milton Keynes dropping bits and swallowing tonic (6,4) |
step out | Lengthen your stride, if a stair tread is missing (4,3) |
cashier | Tiller girl? (7) |
small fry | Trivial as whitebait? (5,3) |
top brass | Garments, inside which underwear for the big nobs (3,5) |
catharsis | Purge has racist components (9) |
handbasin | Maggie's attacks lack gravity in getting item for washroom (9) |
except for | Save excerpt of novel (6,3) |
crossbars | Centre halves at the back covering block: they help make goals (9) |
arenas | Rings for matches (6) |
plus signs | Additional indicators (four in all) found in this puzzle (4,5) |
gopak | Leave old man before end of folk dance (5) |
thoreau | Author puts God above basic substance, as some understand it (7) |
small beer | Gill is of little account (5,4) |
firs | Firm's hacking out a thousand trees (4) |
identification | One making divine to carry holy books, establishing a bond with others (14) |
fostering | Jodie heads for island, needing gentle care (9) |
hang out | Spend time together in Chinese - stomach's empty (4,3) |
meeker | More like those blessed with a worldly inheritance? (6) |
tone deaf | Unaware that one has the wrong key? (4,4) |
clean sweep | Charlie favours Little Prince's fresh start (5,5) |
aurae | Emanations of a primitive primate going quietly (5) |
stoic | One in bed's turned over, not easily excited (5) |
greenery | Vegetation found on part of course with rough rye (8) |
sulphured | Stop man at newspaper being fumigated (9) |
smells | English students enter text on perfumes (6) |
billhook | Note eye-catching gadget for pruning (8) |
ampleforth | College enough for a little theology (10) |
mausoleum | Goldfish placed in the old lady's tomb (9) |
rotenone | Killer of insects - one by mechanical process getting any number (8) |
two legged | Being so disciplined, we get gold (3,6) |
trowel | A scoop for the gardening correspondent? (6) |
aerated | A scolded bishop ignored bubbly (7) |
preformed | Did hesitation set back, if made earlier? (9) |
sickly | Feeble, like an old reaper, might you say? (6) |
shogi | Japanese game is uplifting when astride pig (5) |
reflection | Thought of doing it with Florence (10) |
tie break | Struggle in which the services prove decisive (3,5) |
flounce | Trimming shortened measure in a pint (7) |
air jacket | Mae West broadcast? Boatman is on time in New York (3,6) |