Across
Partly abstaining bit of alcohol knocked back with some frequency (7)
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A charade of SEMI TT (‘partly abstaining’) and A for the first letter of ‘alcohol’, all reversed.
See filmmakers fight anti-intellectual (7)
Continue to probe a journalist under the table (9)
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An insertion of LAST in PER and ED. The insertion indicator is ‘to probe’. ‘The King Edwards are 90p per/a kilo.’
Played together to express annoyance at tagger retreating (5)
Provoke Gregorian at the outset with year missing from their calendar? (4)
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A charade of G for the initial letter of ‘Gregorian’ and O AD. The year zero does not exist in the AD calendar; its first year was AD1. Which a while ago led to long and fruitless discussions about whether the new millennium started on January 1st 2000 or January 1st 2001. There are more important things to worry about.
Misleading diversion on circular route overwhelms cycling crowd (10)
Success in later life of mathematician from South Asia? (12)
Supplying food for virgin mixed with poison (12)
Outings with classmates I fled as described? (10)
Soldiers finish off seconds here? (4)
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A cd.
Middle Eastern character drops first Oscar for sound recording (5)
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A charade of S[AUDI] and O for Oscar from the phonetic alphabet.
Tee at this place watch out for golfer accordingly (9)
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A charade of T, HERE and FORE.
Sporadically train delivery person forgetting international return quickly (7)
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A charade of RI for the even letters of tRaIn and POST[I]E.
Spinning throw breaks dish (7)
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A reversal of LOB and GAPS.
Down
Broken chord spoilt opera gig (8)
Leaves can stop train early with total closure to railway (8)
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Great surface. It’s a charade of TEAC[H], ADD and Y for the last letter of ‘railway’.
Tale of god and outline of truth? (4)
Computer program checks background of a rejected priest (11)
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A charade of SCREENS, A and REV reversed.
Liberal to ask for proof of age providing protection for viewer (3)
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A charade of L and ID. The ‘viewer’ is the eye.
Complex MOT renewal in plant (10)
Fixed rate home secure for future (6)
Grumble with swinger's joint (6)
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A charade of W and HINGE.
Fighting has mainly imposed on US? (11)
Those escaping criticism pocket wages at banks to acquire wine business (10)
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An insertion of RED and CO in SAC and W[AGE]S. The insertion indicator is ‘to acquire’.
Dumb mob evidently upset conceals attack from above (8)
Fragile comic actor's quietly dropped mild expletive (8)
Episode not being broadcast replacing lead with American (6)
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Major is inviting you to replace the first letter of OFF AIR with A.
Lampoon sweet individuals wanting love in retirement (6)
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A reversal of PUD [O]NES.
Picked up kitchen tool second in series (4)
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Aural wordplay (‘picked up’) of BEATER.
Digit before irrational number (3)
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A charade of TO and E. e is a mathematical constant, an irrational number, and the base of natural logarithms.
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