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Finally beginning to set out for North American state capital (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Beginning of S et replaced by N orth in AT LAST – finally & A(merican)
Fix up men with drug on break (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
REST – break & O.R. – men, soldiers & E – ecstasy, drug
Wagnerian aria andof Tristan and Isolde strangely enthralling live? (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
[Beginning of T ristan ISOLDE]* strangely with BE – live inserted. Didn’t we all know this? I suspect some Wagner buff will tell me this is an &lit. EDIT just checked on the web site and it seems to have the word pinnacle missing which would make it even harder.
Naked yogi was positioned at the front to get stared at (5)
Star that’s behind Aries lit up sky briefly (8)
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[End of tha T ARIES]* lit up & most of SK(y)
Beastly fare-dodgers say hiding in vehicles? (6)
Star act playing Ophelia exuding distress over tragedy? (11)
Grease and fiddle with crude erection? (6)
Brazilian great coming back to plague United pulled out big game (8)
Help District Attorney extracting volunteers from European country (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
DA – district attorney & TA – volunteer soldiers – from I(ta)LY. Realise this is thematic – the Daily Star is a UK Newspaper however I’d already done the grid colouring
Took balls from players and scored (9)
Blair somehow seizing power over swinging state? (7)
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P(ower) & O(ver) all in BLAIR* somehow
Very delayed after island gets cut off (7)
Down
Meat finally stripped from bones into dishes (7)
A singer abridged scales for consort (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A & most of TREBL(e) reversed
Engineers jamming bug covertly (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
R.E. – royal engineers – inside INSECT – bug
Lover on the rebound posed first for make-up artist (9)
Lament returning unfinished crossword? (4)
High grade heroin son is shooting up on the beach (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A – high grade & HORSE – heroin with the S moving up in a down clue
? The One and Only (8)
Soviet aerial could be rusty? (7)
Teaches in fashion: it’s boring in the main (9)
Name originally invoked opening poetical epics? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CALL – name & first letters of I nvoked O pening P oetical E pics
He directs the news cycle? (8)
City company restructured board (7)
Bejewelled perhaps like Ronaldo’s boots? (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Well, football boots have studs
Papers ignoring English cries for positive visions of the country (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
ID – papers & E(nglish) removed from Y(e)LLS
Camels might end up here then if hour is spent off course (6)
“Trump possibly is a scoundrel” Republican admitted (4)
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