Across
Note queen occupying house, say (10)
Love last of chess captures winning back piece (4)
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UP (winning) reversed in O (love) S (last of chesS).
Cutting time on ring road fellow circles (7)
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MAN (fellow) with O RD inserted and T added.
On vacation, amusement in that place in play area? (7)
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insert A T (vacated AmusemenT) into THERE = in that place.
Procession of figures not unknown in part of Ireland (9)
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COUNTY DOWN loses its “unknown” Y.
Short introduction to Armenian song and dance (5)
Drive, coming out of Malmo, to Riga (5)
Low Head of News turned to round of features (4-5)
Increase in sweet food taken into kind of blue movie (9)
Delayed expression of approval? (2,3)
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O ! NICE being an expression of approval.
East to west, head for German city (5)
Examiner not precise in translation out of English (9)
Nab criminal wearing soft fabric, one running the cooler (3,4)
Somewhere in California I see in Maine, surprisingly? (7)
In France the art remains shunned by consumers (4)
Animal trainer securing right means to get milk (6,4)
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BEAST (animal) insert R for right; PUMP = trainer, old name for a training shoe or plimsoll. My LOI as I’ve never seen one of these in action.
Down
Amount added to account? It may bear fruit (5)
Decorative veneer sample with leading brand (9)
Put up with one hammering meat (7-7)
Maybe music class getting answer right at first (3,4)
Corrode a metal in periodically scratched section (3,4)
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A TIN inside alternate letters of s E c T i O n.
Aide saving regular tranches of venture capital once (5)
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PA (aide, personal assistant) with alternate letters of v E n T u R e inserted. Famous “rose city” in Jordan, inhabited for some 7000 years, but having read up on Wiki it’s not entirely clear to me what it was the capital of. The Edomites, perhaps.
Start to scarper, fly, go off and leg it (9)
What witches do with e.g. worker's legal agreement (4,2,8)
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a DEED of (the) COVEN would be what witches do, and ANT = worker.
Old lady's looking sad, abandoned by a virtuoso (9)
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MA’S (old lady’s) TEARFUL (sad) losing an A.
Strong drink stirred reaction, you heard (9)
A thousand I withheld from lousier clothes-maker? (7)
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K (a thousand) NITTIER = lousier, take away an I.
Hosting East German, bit a kind of pancake (7)
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TAD (bit) A, with OST (German for east) inside.
Feel this could make 21 (5)
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anagram of ESSEN.
Concerned with politician concealing a plot again (5)
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