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One leaves old king some fertile land (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
O (old), R{i}CHARD (king) [one leaves]. The definition seems a little loose and I wondered if there might be a dictionary entry to fit it more specifically, but I couldn’t find anything in the usual sources.
Ace in flying saucer gets break (7)
Belt in earthy shade uniform should accommodate (3,6)
Liberal Irish record overturned reveals grave danger (5)
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L (Liberal) + IR (Irish) + EP (extended play record) reversed [overturned]
Colt back around western states taking time in principle (3,2,8)
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FOAL (colt) containing W (western) reversed [back], then AVERS (states) containing [taking…in] AGE (time)
Refused husband the covers: furious about that? (8)
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WILD (furious) containing [about] THE containing [covers] H (husband)
Ceremonial instruments used in Lysistrata (6)
Placing financial restriction on ordinary folk is old hat (6)
Horrible to leave note without regrets? (8)
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GO (leave) + ME (note – music), containing [without] RUES (regrets)
Trifle with edging hotel prepared like dip (5-8)
Blocking passage in church, one wet behind ears (5)
Curmudgeon spotted with daughter out for fruit (4,5)
Odd characters in secret exercises on the staff (7)
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S{e}C{r}E{t} [odd characters], PT (exercises), RE (on)
Barrister and casual worker having endless fun (7)
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Bring down books to entertain setter and solver? (4)
Kept appointment with fate coming to Arthur's Seat (7)
Quarrel caused when posh school fails to open (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
{h}ARROW (posh school) [fails to open]. My old school’s rich relative at the top of Harrow Hill. ‘Quarrel / ARROW’ appeared in the QC on 30th May along with a MER over the terminology. There’s support for the definition in at least one of the usual sources but a quarrel is a square bolt as fired by a crossbow, so not what we normally think of as an arrow.
Heavy rain's appearance in low Cornish river and lake (8)
Cells initially needing permission to divide? (6)
Old forward is beginning to employ special knowledge (9)
Leading Tories being honourable? (7)
Bengalese AM broadcast not good for ratings (4,6)
Floated south across country with duck departing marshes (10)
Pulse right to coat in warm batter (9)
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R (right) contained by [to coat in] HEAT (warm), then BEAT (batter)
Cologne is this loud with student festivity and shouting? (8)
Start to grasp socially acceptable English dance (7)
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BEGIN (start) containing [to grasp] U (socially acceptable), then E (English). It’s a sort of slow rumba, perhaps best known from the title of the Cole Porter song Begin the Beguine. It originally appeared in a Broadway show in 1935, but it was this 1938 recording by Artie Shaw and his Orchestra that popularised it so that later it was used in a Fred Astaire film and became a standard recorded by a host famous artists.
Reference work one on China so complex? (7)
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OED (reference work – Oxford English Dictionary), I (one), PAL (China)
Failure at table to avoid row becoming audible (6)
River near tree bordering area in field (5)
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R (river), then ELM (tree) containing [bordering] A (area)
Stick close to flatmate in block (4)
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{flatmat}E [close] contained by [in] BAR (block – obstruct, ban)
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