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Approval and praise within part of theatre (7)
Carry audio device full of symbolism (7)
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TOTE (carry) MIC (microphone – ‘audio device’)
Top show cut before delayed broadcast (9)
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CIRCU s (‘Top show’ – circus shows typically take place in a ‘Big Top’) missing the last letter or ‘cut’ + LATE (delayed)
Piece of equipment containing minimum of light is dark (5)
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UNIT (‘piece of equipment’) round or ‘containing’ L (first letter or ‘minimum’ of light)
Arts subject, in brief, to include old Anglo-American poet (5)
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E LIT (abbreviation – ‘in brief’ – of English Literature, an ‘Arts subject’ at school) round or ‘including’ O (old)
Certainly experienced expression of pain after last of unsafe cosmetic (3,6)
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YES (certainly) HAD (experienced) OW (expression of pain) after E (last letter of unsafe)
Shopkeeper, perhaps, conventional in such things at the outset (8)
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STOCK (conventional) I S T (first letters or ‘at the outset’ of in such things)
Uncovered coot record given variable study of eggs (6)
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c OO t (missing the first and last letters or ‘uncovered’) LOG (record) Y (variable – in algebra)
Medicine man mostly reasonable after eating meat (6)
Hectic rearranged tie hosted by European people - Hearts knocked out (8)
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An anagram (‘rearranged’) of TIE in or ‘hosted by’ FRENC h (European people) with the ‘h’ (hearts) missing or ‘knocked out’
Unidentified thing with energy quota cropping up again? (9)
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IT (unidentified thing) E (energy) RATION (quota)
Lecturer welcoming the old senior member (5)
Detective, glum, missing second round (5)
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MOR o SE (glum) missing the second ‘o’ (round)
Very pleasant composer welcoming one into company (9)
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DELIUS (composer) round or ‘welcoming’ I (one) in CO (company)
French coming in to reinvigorate Scottish town (7)
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FR (French) in RENEW (reinvigorate)
Spanish composer, excellent, quite the foremost in Andalusia (2,5)
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DEF (excellent) ALL (quite) A (first letter or ‘foremost’ in Andalusia) – we had never heard of this composer, and struggled with the wordplay, trying to figure out how ‘all’ = ‘quite’ – Chambers has it as an adverb equivalent to ‘quite’ or ‘completely’. Our LOI.
Down
See 2 Down
1d
(and 1 Down) Copter is a wreck ultimately after struggling in turbulence? (3,7)
Discourage daughter over another relative (5)
Cross, saying a few words about party that’s terminated early (8)
Not quite leading city of the past (6)
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THE BES t (leading) missing the last letter or ‘not quite’
Landing requires ability with feathers (9)
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TOUCH (ability) DOWN (feathers)
Tailor madly working, without skill (11)
Injury on opponents’ ground? Here’s simultaneous shot (7)
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CUT (injury) AWAY (on opponents’ ground’) – we had to check the definition – it relates to a shot in a film or TV happening simultaneously to the central events
Scenario with hod redesigned? Probably not this shape (11)
A research area in Korea hybridised marsupial (5,4)
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A LAB (research area) in an anagram (‘hybridised’) of KOREA
Satisfied infantryman took charge (8)
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GRUNT (infantryman) LED (took charge)
Bit of water brought in to lightly boil fish? (7)
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W (first letter or ‘bit’ of water) in SIMMER (lightly boil)
Players covering an area in game (7)
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CAST (players) round or ‘covering’ AN + A (area)
Opportunity in Germany? Enthusiastic comment about that (6)
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IN D (Germany) with WOW (enthusiastic comment) outside
Had to accept upturns in less potent drink (5)
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A reversal (‘upturns’) of FACED (‘had to accept’)
Wise figure picking up some philosophical work (3)
Type letters or click words in the clue