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Don't split small dead plant (7)
Removing wrappers to use gas oven, Lloyd prepared food (7)
Keystone Cops' initial material, worth mining (4)
Director mistakenly cut Roach's last saloon number in storage on farm (5,4)
Keep out of steep enclosure for entry to barbican (5)
In every other Sennett reel, artist begs (8)
Clamour for return of Fatty Arbuckle in small part (4)
Poach cycling ducks (5)
See 22
He went from Italy to America by scooter to join fashion house, squandering silver (8)
Boatman's following silent film, a universal horror (5)
Drunken parties with pineapple and edam starters as canapé (9)
17a
Normand — one in supporting role as a rule (8)
Athletic Chaplin for head of Disney! (7)
Clap Purviance, unevenly acting like a goat (7)
Down
Dance seen in pantomime Our Gang orchestrated originally (4)
Was absent, yet recast? Not Stan Laurel (5,3)
Communist trap? On the contrary, not Hardy (6)
Hapless Chase met agents to make cuts (8)
Buster Keaton missing on second shooting of scene! (6)
Funny film shortened — would be, too, if the ending was cut (4)
For some, WC Fields blowing his top with hate is outrageous (3,6)
Langdon's heart captured by desperate lament (5)
Quite forgetting to count (5)
Silent comic ain't curt (8)
Clue to warming together (3,2,3)
Old Russian clown is said to die (3,3)
Coarse grass laid down and shooting up (6)
Boatman has appeal but not much (1,3)
Garvin finally accepted in routine, the smallest of the brood (4)
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