Across
Problems exist over European exchange programme (7)
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reversal of SUMS (problems) ARE (exist); the Erasmus Programme (‘EuRopean Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students’) is an EU student exchange programme established in 1987
One holding a person's hat by peak (6)
Is girl able to take out competitor? (9)
Complain doctor's consuming alcohol (5)
Fraud succeeded with one pair of unknowns (5)
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S (succeeded) W (with) 1 (one) ZZ (two mathematical unknowns)
A large youth taking pint round for singer (9)
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A L LAD in BEER
Your associate has perhaps initially put back bract (8)
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reversal (put back) of YR (your) ALLY H[as] P[erhaps]; a bract (and thus a phyllary too) is ‘a specialized leaf, usually smaller than the foliage leaves, with a single flower or inflorescence growing in its axil’; all clear then…
What to get after nine assembly toys for young one? (6)
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I think the idea is that if you’ve already worked on nine, let’s say, Meccano kits, AKA ‘assembly toys’, then the next one will be ‘kit ten’; like all jokes, it loses a bit when you have to explain it. Unless, I suppose, it wasn’t very funny in the first place…
Dilapidated horse-drawn carriage carrying two bishops (6)
Crustacean caught with light line by angler, perhaps (8)
Feature of Berg's music composed almost in A (9)
Be anxious having wife in residence (5)
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W in SEAT; ‘she was sweating over her exam results’
Mushroom used in kitchen Okinawa-style (5)
Picture accepting a temperature disturbance for the country? (9)
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A T RIOT in PIC
Day in NY? Yes, fantastic city (6)
Painter of heavenly figure (7)
Down
Extra for packet? More than enough soup without seconds (6,7)
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EXCESS (more than enough) S (seconds) in POTAGE (soup); excess postage is essentially the payment due from the addressee when insufficient stamps have been put on a letter or packet. I put first ‘excess luggage’, then ‘excess baggage’, each of which, unlike ‘excess postage’, has its own entry in Collins.
Man in suit failing to start Yankee's guaranteed payment (7)
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[]AN [i]N [s]UIT Y (Yankee)
Principal Zulu city (5)
Dingy loos set up in Spitzbergen (8)
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reversal of DRAB (dingy) LAVS (loos); two names of a little known Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
Look up in native American language (6)
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reversal of LO in CREE (native American)
Fighting spirit of dog can upset it over years (9)
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PUG (dog) reversal of CAN IT (from the clue) Y (years)
Wealthy work fast after university (7)
Mum or dad morally correct raising Henry with qualifications (13)
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PARENT (mum or dad) ET[h]ICAL (‘raising Henry’ indicates that the H has to go – just about); of course, the other, more prosaic, parsing, would be that the H in ETHICAL is moved up the target word a couple of spaces…
One keeping books in balance fled having concealed one (9)
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LIBRA (balance) I in RAN (fled)
Key runs under professional test champion (8)
Excuse a page on science (7)
Sloth in tree mostly climbing with another likewise (7)
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I think this is how this works: IN reversal of TRE[e] (tree mostly climbing) reversal of AI, AKA the pale-throated sloth (‘another’ needs to refer to sloth and ‘likewise’ to climbing); if I’ve got this right, I can’t say I’m this clue’s biggest fan
Small hint? Absolutely (6)
Be mean with male interrupting dance (5)
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M in SKIP
Type letters or click words in the clue