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Sweat blood! A new rallying cry (6)
In which Dashing White Sergeants may follow Gay Gordons? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A straight definition.
Writing in Afghan province curtailed by the one in charge (8)
See 11
10a
Seek election fast? Not with error included in May’s 1 (6,3,6)
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16a
Oxbridge set, lacking suitable leader, take Ten by storm with Johnson’s 1 (3,6,4)
See 14
Tag line (4)
Preferred to welcome soggy dew: he’ll wake up damp (9)
Hostility when vying for the part (4)
Times includes set classifications by birth (3,6)
Mafia’s come to conceal calamity (6)
Cool clue for face (4-4)
Mortice plugged by centre of key turns fast (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘turns’) of ‘mortice’ plus E (‘centre of k E y’). ‘Plugged by’ suggests an envelope, which it is, but with ‘turns’, placed where it is, ‘plugged by’ is unnecessary for the wordplay.
Cheap and fishy? (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A Pauline whimsy: like the fish GAR.
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City’s residue includes primary deposits (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An envelope (‘includes’) of D (‘primary D eposits’) in LEES (‘residue’).
Fool capsized horse in charge – what a sap! (3,6)
The chosen one – me! – in one arrangement (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
An anagram (‘arrangement’) of ‘me in one’.
See 23
Playing while banged up (6)
National initially is ready and quits idling (5)
The daughter of my brother by another mother, say – quite lovely about end of life (4-5)
Alkene libation recanted in part of Texas city (7)
Long for former lover? It evens out (9)
Overwhelm with clue to ‘burn me’? (9)
See 21
20d
Balfour, no effin’ joke, ain’t Geordie royalty, according to Thatcher’s 1 (6,4,7)
5d
Obama’s 1 – quite so! Learn to live without Conservative (3,2,3)
Beats hose (5)
Be without, we hear, water (3)
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