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Short man drove into woman's tropical tree (9)
Degree of elevation that's perfect for some players (5)
Dupe whip's assistant at Westminster primarily (4-3)
Note about recorder originally employed in genuine court action (7)
Presumably vote against party (5)
Insect a theologian is canny about at the start (6-3)
Wash in club at Hendon (5)
Sort of lens hotel poet developed (9)
Endless mysterious instances (9)
Reportedly risk the meat course? (5)
Ratings deceived a talked-of person on the run (9)
One who entertains head of automobile plant (5)
Fellow European holds record, taking on a form of diving (4-3)
Popular Arab advancing first of ships near coast? (7)
He won the Nobel prize for literature? Indeed, way back (5)
Creepy-crawly let loose after return of stick insect (3-6)
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One who showed patience penning a hundred sheep (5)
Woman on lorry releasing repressed emotions (9)
Again treat golfer, perhaps, during vacation (9)
Latest tax on cord worn by leader of detectives — here? (3,8,4)
Publicised drink taken by reservist's best friend? (8,7)
Works of art positioned on this regularly (5)
Not necessarily thick, this malefactor (5)
Plant cardinal finally dropped in consecrated wine? (9)
Plundering of fat bloke securing rights in different places (9)
Heat stops circulating at great speed (9)
Laugh uproariously after deliveries go too far (9)
Ancient kingdom identified by female graduate (5)
Like one welcomed into sailor's watering-hole (5)
Eurasian tree the council finally planted in Lincoln (5)
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