Across
One touching prickly thorns briefly (2,5)
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Testament, word of introduction for play (7)
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White pile ground down first (9)
Large mammal with cry that's audible? (5)
Green water, ebbing (5)
Certain to eat first of food with it – a bellyful (7)
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American writer in West Germany, he travels (6,9)
Resurgent publisher welcomes novel then (2,3,2)
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Crooked when horizontal? (5)
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Mark part of the intestine (5)
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Large vessel left empty, article scoffed by pig (3,6)
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Has that woman visited unlicensed bar? (7)
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Revolutionary queen I love for so long (7)
Down
One line redacted in documents, working for old PM (6)
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Strangely, one isn't a European (8)
Virtue has come after loss of business, I say! (8,2)
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Pass wobbly desk to man (4,3,2)
Gradually soften what has melted (4)
Stick together – or split (6)
City where group of witches go (8)
Holiday dance (4)
Item of jewellery, article for troublemaker (10)
Cane and single bullet for collection (4-5)
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Person downing the spirits? (8)
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Hairy spider's ending in drink (8)
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Narrator, one working in bank (6)
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Hideous thing where no rum and water served up (6)
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Alliance broken, leaving one cold initially (4)
Christmas book, middle torn out (4)
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