Across
Engineer in Essex partly responsible for disturbing nature (8)
Show embarrassment about author being rather rude (6)
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BLUSH (show embarrassment) round I (author)
Feeble hosts live it up in a punishing manner (10)
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PUNY (feeble) round or ‘hosting’ an anagram (‘up’) of LIVE IT
You are to be removed from office young man (4)
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B ur EAU (office) with ‘u r’ (you are) removed
American vessel brought back monarch from abroad (4)
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A reversal (‘brought back’) of A (American) JAR (vessel)
One million standing for unwelcome burden (10)
Limits of cognate sense affected meaning (7)
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An anagram (‘affected’) of C ognat E (first and last letters or ‘limits’) and SENSE
Formed a union started by takeover apparently (7)
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COUP (takeover) LED (started by)
Determined to catch grey cuckoo immediately before heron (10)
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SET (determined) round or ‘catching’ an anagram (‘cuckoo’) of GREY after NOW (immediately)
Sound content for each broadcast (4)
Prog rock band wanting second album to sound like Howling Wolf? (4)
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YE s (Prog rock band) missing or ‘wanting’ the ‘s’ (second) + LP (album)
Add compound interest to begin with or default badly (10)
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An anagram (‘badly’) of I (first letter or ‘beginning’ of interest) and OR DEFAULT
Steal inside information to finish off crime (6)
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TIP (inside information) TO E (last letter or ‘finish’ of crime)
Sustained blow to the face? (8)
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Cryptic definition
Down
Misty appearance of mass removed from whisked albumen (6)
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An anagram (‘whisked’) of ALBU m EN with the ‘m’ (mass) missing or ‘removed’
Put the finishing touches to flier that is about tax (8)
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TIT (‘flyer’) + IE (that is) round VAT (tax)
Small group receiving former record company's 50% share of album? (10)
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S (small) CIRCLE (group) round or ‘receiving’ EMI (former record company)
Be controlled by veneer of orthodoxy? (4)
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A clue-as-definition: BE in or ‘controlled by’ O bedienc Y (first and last letters or ‘veneer’)
Ant-eater paralysed ants regularly (6)
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NUMB (paralysed) + alternate or ‘regular’ letters of A n T s – a new word for us
Cut leak outside empty toilet (8)
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ESCAPE (leak) round or ‘outside’ L o O (toilet) missing the middle letter or ’empty’
Plain stage in auditorium (6)
Lacking money for fare from Scotland (10)
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SHORT (lacking) BREAD (money)
Type missing certain characteristics of liberal fairness (8)
Quiet high-pitched sound associated with English swallow (8)
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PIP (high-pitched sound) E (English) DOWN (swallow)
King that hurt sycophant's position? (6)
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CR (King Charles) OUCH (that hurt)
Does possibly delay one seizing power (6)
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WAIT (delay) I (one) round or ‘seizing’ P (power) – the ‘does’ being female deer
Keep moving in part of person's sphere of vision (6)
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RETAIN (keep) with ‘in’ moving forward
Female leader leaves children land with strings attached (4)
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F (female) ch IEF (leader) with ‘ch’ (children) missing or ‘leaving’
Type letters or click words in the clue