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French composer's freedom restricted by returning offspring (7)
Group of schoolchildren stumped by paper (6)
See 10
9a
Economist, one foregoing Keynes, famed in Republican manoeuvring (6,8)
PROFIT? (7,5)
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Quite a clever self-evident clue
Foul reek — old and new sewers produce it (10)
Novelist lacking close friend (3)
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Kingsley AMIS (1922–1995) an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher minus S (lacking close) for the French word for friend
Online paper shows amphibian (3)
One raising issue about letters backing the legislators (10)
Borderline character with impudence remains wild (12)
Novel that's hilarious, one getting thanks (6)
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Cha of LOL (laughing out loud, hilarious) I (one) & TA (thanks) for Lolita , a novel by Russian author, Vladimir Nabokov published in the mid-1950’s.
Complaint about jerk being an MP (8)
Filthy place was first to be knocked into shape (6)
Stop media manipulation happening! (7)
Down
Take off from party with maximum volume (4)
Frenchwoman's distant, a bit of a cow, perhaps (4)
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Loin is French for distant and also part of a bovine carcass. Thank you NeilW@1 for spotting the omission
Very hot in Spain, the poor young socialite's overcome (8)
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Rev of EL (Spanish definite article) BAD (poor) DEB (debutante, young socialite)
Eastern mystic's morning in the Belgravia area (5)
Model having shoots (6)
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Tichy way to describe a plant with twigs for Lesley Lawson (née Hornby; born September 19, 1949), widely known by the nickname Twiggy , an English model, actress, and singer in the early 1960’s.
Old pet, heard outside, is set free (10)
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EX (old) + ins of CAT (pet) in TRIED (heard)
Car goes around in gear just over bottom (10)
Police trap criminal with heart of gold (6)
How 10's 18 25 starts abrupt current decline (5,5)
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PARADISE (answer to 18) LOST (answer to 25) is an epic poem by the 17th-century English poet John MILTON (1608–1674) (answer to 10). The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. It is often considered one of the greatest literary works in the English language
Whence one gets milk and a sandwich very regularly (3,7)
Starbuck's first found here, healthier and with topping (6)
Garden is planted in March (8)
Woman eating cheap products displays figure (6)
What journalist wants — Sun to shut up (5)
See 25
24d
What one makes up for depraved sentence (4,4)
Type letters or click words in the clue