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Performing one’s duty? (3,4,4,2,2)
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We need to read the clue as “Performing is one’s duty
Posting a little malicious? Sickening (7)
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M[alicious] + AILING
It’s plain a kiss is to ask too much (7)
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OVERT (plain) + A X (kiss)
In endless rage, this flies? (3)
Abe’s pub where all want a good argument? (8,3)
Not here for the Latin translation (2,8)
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In absentia is Latin for “not here”, or more precisely “in the absence” or “while absent”
One has a close relationship with a hooker (4)
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Props and a hooker are adjacent in the front row of a rugby scrum
Falstaff loved this bed (4)
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Sack is an old name for a kind of fortified wine; Falstaff praises it in the line “If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.” Sack is also slang for a bed, as in “hit the sack”
Wipe garment, a novel sort of wrap (4,6)
Fall asleep on hard wood in front of film: “On the Road” screening (5,6)
Call from pigeon cage, not quiet (3)
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COOP (cage) less P (piano, quiet)
Food dispenser placed on the floor of the car? (7)
I sloped off to strip (7)
Scottish mystery the McLorens’ sons resolved (4,4,7)
Down
Period with insects, when you’re having fun … ? (4,5)
After work, retire to a foreign country (7)
Hot and stuffy, but not needing to shampoo (8)
One won’t get drunk on this (5)
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To be on the wagon is to abstain from alcohol
Doctor’s relaxed, glorious time (9)
Be inclined to inhale gas? No more now! (3,3)
Heard dismissal of storyteller is a result needing explaining (7)
The naked President? (5)
To be sent in storm around Yellow Sea causes queasiness (9)
To shoot old fowl is work of little merit (9)
Guerrilla, one put in separate clinic (8)
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I in PART (to separate) SAN (sanatorium, clinic)
Coach – it slithered all over the place (7)
Summarily dismiss, giving one the boot? (4,3)
Pretend article comes from native healer (6)
One’s fast in the water but slow on land (5)
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The crawl is a fast swimming stroke, or a slow way to move on land, e.g. by babies
Precocious girl turns up without getting changed (5)
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The last part of the clue indicates that the answer is a palindrome
Type letters or click words in the clue