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Induce intoxication long after beer has run out? (7)
Treacherous Greek character retreats, shot outside (5)
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PUNIC (treacherous)
Hedonist tense following exam in German city (3,6)
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BON VIVANT (a person who lives well, especially one who enjoys fine food; hedonist [ one who has a lifestyle devoted to pleasure-seeking])
Trained bear helping to show eccentricity (10)
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ABERRATION (deviation from the usual, normal or right course, direction or behaviour; eccentricity)
Olympian queen and husband are returning (4)
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HERA (Greek goddess, queen and one of the twelve Olympians)
Book at that time peaked — a novel (3,5,3)
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THE NAKED APE (title of a book by Desmond Morris, [born 1928], English zoologist, first published in 1967)
Complex play on Rome lost in the battle (11)
Find sea eagle in another nest (4)
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ERNE (sea eagle)
Fail to observe pet Dickens kept in foreign tale (10)
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CONTRAVENE (infringe; fail to observe [the rules])
Cool couple needs some in 2 to dress down (2,7)
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IN DESPAIR (without hope; very sad; down)
Region round Colchester sees desperate times (5)
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ESSEX (Colchester is a town in the English County of ESSEX )
Saints at last to probe lacking heart for nil-nil? (2,5)
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NO SCORE (nil-nil in a sports match is another way of saying there is NO SCORE )
English indeed catching the French unsighted (7)
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EYELESS (with no EYES [unsighted])
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G7 perhaps needs intelligence to grasp point (6)
Port's name engraved in seat (6)
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NANTES (port city of Western France)
Put down to the occasion, can it ever be bettered? (6,4)
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RECORD TIME (the current best performance [can it ever be bettered? – I think, ‘probably’ is the answer, most RECORD s are bettered although I accept that the new value will now be known as the ‘ RECORD TIME ‘). I suppose it’s all a bit like ‘tomorrow never comes’]
Start university getting into arrears (5)
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DEBUT (beginning or first attempt)
Swine upset everyone after scrap where house calls made (5,4)
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BINGO HALL (a venue where ‘house’ [another name for BINGO ] is played and numbers are called)
Scent carried almost overcomes one abandoned child (4)
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WAIF (neglected, abandoned or orphaned child)
Call for missile to tip unfavourable balance (5,3)
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TRADE GAP (the amount by which a country’s visible imports exceed its visible exports in value; unfavourable balance)
Alter ego Tees announces setting 23 1 Across — for starters — in 18 (3,5)
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HOT GATES ( THERMOPYLAE (entry at 18 across) means HOT GATES . The name is derived from its hot sulphur springs. In Greek mythology the HOT GATES is one of the entrances to Hades)
One from Dakar seen buffeted by winds close to village (10)
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SENEGALESE ( DAKAR is the capital city of Senegal)
Eastern guru coming round very good on secret assignments? (9)
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ESPIONAGE (spying; secret assignments)
23 articles about six counties — in Greek! (8)
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ATHENIAN (a native of ATHEN s; a Greek)
King at 18 25 one Christmas needing boost (8)
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LEONIDAS (King of the city state of Sparta, one of the Kings involved at the battle of THERMOPYLAE [entry at 18 across])
Lower entrance on the outside for tenant (6)
King at 18 the other king sent north (6)
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XERXES (King of the Persians leading the opposition to Sparta at the battle of THERMOPYLAE [entry at 18 across])
1a
(and 1 Across) Article to include on barbarian terror wasting a number under 17 at 18 (5,7)
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THREE [ HUNDRED ] (numbers of Spartans under the command of LEONIDAS [entry at 17 down]) towards the end of the battle of THERMOPYLAE [entry at 18 across])
Nothing to check wife leaving European city (4)
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OSLO (Capital city of Norway)
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