Across
Wild solution, with a degree of overlap, is something to have on hand (8)
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MANIC (wild) CURE (solution) sharing ‘C” 0r ‘with a degree of overlap’
Part of hooter having indecisive sound after a month (6)
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UM (indistinctive sound) after SEPT (a month)
Very important article about married railway worker (9)
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SIGNAL (very important – listed as an adjective in Chambers – notable or remarkable) AN (article) about M (married)
Warrior tribe held back in reserve at first (5)
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IN reversed or ‘held back’ with ICE (reserve) first
What 14 will do: decay at end of use (6)
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ROT (decay) ATE (last letter or ‘end’ of usE)
Evening music found in Sweden before enthralling another Scandinavian on the rebound (8)
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S (Sweden) ERE (before) around or ‘enthralling’ DANE (another Scandinavian) reversed or ‘on the rebound’
Son fixing weak part of foot? This offers something to help with knitting (8-5)
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S (son) PINNING (fixing) W (weak) HEEL (part of foot)
Lighthouse overseers, three working in British navy, standing beside tree (5,8)
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An anagram (‘working’) of THREE in B (British) N (navy) after or ‘standing beside’ ELDER (tree). The Elder Brethren are the governing members of Trinity House which oversees lighthouses.
Last performance - effectively as Desmond, N? (8)
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SWANSON G – Gloria Swanson played Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard
Grand Dickensian character showing resentment (6)
I start to loosen in time, becoming nimble (5)
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I L (first letter or ‘start’ to Loosen) in AGE (time)
A powerful car tails off? My trip needs something much more powerful (9)
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A STRON g (powerful) AUT o (car) both missing last letters or ‘tails off’
Imagines quantities of Scotch without English (6)
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DRAMS (quantities of Scotch) around or ‘without’ E (English)
Irritation I overlooked in environmentally aware German girl (8)
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i TCH (irritation) without or ‘overlooking’ I in GREEN (environmentally aware)
Down
Be uncertain about atmospheric dampness and what it may cause (8)
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MIST (atmospheric dampness) RUST (what may it may cause)
Most of the booze overturned in the dark (5)
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TH e missing last letter or ‘most of’ GIN (booze) all ‘overturned’
Conservative drive for discipline (7)
Uphill standard must accommodate motorway slope (4)
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PAR (standard) reversed or ‘uphill’ around or ‘accommodating’ M (motorway)
European historical article to be held up as a bad influence (4,3)
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E (European) YE (historical article) LIVE (be) all reversed or ‘held up’
That letter, fourth time rejected, rubbished society magazine (3,6)
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An anagram (‘rubbished’) of THAT LET t ER with the fourth T (time) missing or ‘rejected’
Help secured by knights, say, yet to win (6)
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AID (help) inside or ‘secured by’ MEN (knights say) – nothing to do with a cricketing term which is what Joyce thought it was – a maiden is a horse that has never won a race.
Writer with an oddball description of peaceful times? (8)
Writerly folk failing to start vote to discard books again and again (9)
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l ITERATI (writerly folk) missing first letter or ‘failing to start’ VotE without or ‘discarding’ OT (books)
Like an emperor, note, one Iran scrapped (8)
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N (note) and an anagram (‘scrapped’) of ONE IRAN
Left after meal to pen book still topping the lists? (8)
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UNEATEN (left after meal) around or ‘penning’ B (book)
Remove top from bowl made of wood (7)
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It had to be DISH (bowl) ELM (wood) but we needed to check it in Chambers. It means ‘to divest of a helmet’. In other words – ‘remove top from’.
Evict number of people (7)
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Double definition
Papers about type of speech not entirely found in Cyprus? (6)
25d
(and 25 Down) Head start in rebuilding planet destroyer (5,4)
See 24 Down
Type letters or click words in the clue
