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Slow boat contrary to expectation returned (3)
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BUT (contrary to expectation) reversed (returned)
Judge gives verdict: not right for Verne? (5)
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J (judge) then rULES (gives verdict) missing R (right) – author Jules Verne perhaps
Fabulous sight, drunken nuncio runs inside (7)
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anagram (drunken) of NUNCIO containing R (runs)
Understand studious person knocked back (4)
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WONK (studious person) reversed (knocked back)
Excerpt from section in the Choral Symphony (5)
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found inside sectioN IN THe – Beethoven’s ninth is known as The Choral Symphony
Long sentence in biography (4)
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double definition
Bye! Supporter leaving palace in London area (6)
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B (bye, cricket) then ALHAMbra (palace) missing BRA (supporter, something that supports)
Tight when crossing river in festive days? (3,4)
Private saving beneficiary managed without yen (4)
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RAN (managed) containing (without, outside) Y (yen) – character from film Saving Private Ryan
Using sound, very delicate note dropped (5)
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SO (very) NICe (delicate) missing E (note, of a musical scale)
Audibly changed direction in diplomacy (4)
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sounds like (audibly) “tacked” (changed direction)
Rhys Jones for audience on as monster (7)
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GRYPH sounds like (for audience) “Griff” (comedian Griff Rhys Jones) then ON
Decent being close to target in hunt (6)
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last letter (close, to end) of targeT inside CHASE (hunt)
Endless fright and surgery reminder? (4)
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SCARe (fright) missing last letter (end-less)
Old article about motorway woman (5)
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O (old) AN (article, grammar) all reversed (about) then MI (the M1, motorway)
Set piece player involved in scrum (4)
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double definition – a prop in a play (piece) and a rugby player
Fix where Blythe admits to spying? (7)
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I’M PLANT (the setter of this puzzle admits to spying) a plant is a spy
Gang in Caribbean island denied new papers (5)
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TRInidAD (Caribbean island) missing N ID (papers)
Husband given arsenic suffers (3)
Down
Scrabble champion's first rule (4)
Tense Sun writer Kingsley making waves (8)
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T (tense) SUN then AMIS (writer Kingsley Amis)
Feel very hot water up north? (4)
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double definition – a burn is a a stream in N. England and Scotland
Desire a wife in Scottish town (6)
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WISH (desire) then A W (wife)
Fan calm under pressure (4)
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double definition
Juan's foul: Ray out for month (7)
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anagram (foul) of JUAN then anagram (out) of RAY
Canny ferrymen guarding Welsh river (5)
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found inside (guarded by) canNY FERryman – the Welsh rive Afon Nyfer , known as the River Neven in English
Practical characters at Hungary's borders? (5)
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H AND Y are the outer letters (borders) of HungarY
Tricky Dick swaps vote for new material (5)
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NIxON (Richard Nixon, Tricky Dicky) replacing X (a vote) with N (new)
Partner no longer works to raise bonus (5)
Two going round on their Bromptons? (8)
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some sort of cryptic definition perhaps? Bromptons are folding bicycles, so perhaps to do with wheels (things that spin, cycle)? But surely Bromptons (more then one Brompton) have to have at the very least least four wheels. Perhaps it just means two cyclists who may be making a tour (going round)?
Pet for daughter in London district? (7)
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CAT (pet) FOR D (daughter)
Designer good one around posh clubs twice (5)
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G (good) I (one) contains (around) U (posh) C C (clubs, twice)
Samuel's mum unaffected by revolution (6)
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a palindrome (unaffected by revolution, reversal)
Hitch the Master of Suspense directed it! (4)
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double definition – Rope is the title of a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (the Master of Suspense)
Love at hotel to make promise (4)
Old man seen with Irish couple (4)
Type letters or click words in the clue