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Tricky account is hard to keep in line (8)
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TICK is the kind of account you want, add IS in plain sight and H(ard), the whole keeping in L(ine). In the days when we used to use cash and didn’t always have it, your friendly corner shop or even pub would allow you to put your purchases on tick, a list behind the counter, against the day you won the pools.
Part of London well-liked, but not for top people (6)
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Making a welcome return after only 3 days, and with a much more familiar clue. Well-liked POPULAR, without the U because top people and Nancy Mitford don’t like it.
Folly and rudeness — there's little right in that (10)
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Rudeness is IMPUDENCE insert a little R(ight)
Thought to bring article forward for assistant (4)
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Thought is IDEA, advance the indefinite article to the front.
Financial specialist in car, hard worker and certain winner? (8,6)
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Perhaps the setter hopes product placement will be noticed by the Stuttgart marketing department. MERC is your car (hopefully), then H(ard) (worker) ANT, and BANKER is the dead cert filly you bet on to cover your losses on the rest which turn out to be elderly carthorses.
Cook putting out a drink talks from here? (7)
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Cook is ROAST, put out the A, add RUM (often a sound idea for a drink)
Stand up, somehow, ground level collector (7)
County girl has performed at the front (7)
Walk backwards across a road to find explosive devices (7)
Friendly mixing is reason rift ain't spreading (14)
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An anagram (spreading) of REASON RIFT AIN’T. Local church ministers and theological colleges are still debating whether they have fraternals now most of the participants are from the monstrous regiment.
Excellent moneymaker (4)
Very worried daughter is given lesson about e.g. writing (10)
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D(aughter) IS (hello again) given lesson TAUGHT with one of the three R’s, two of which including this one aren’t.
Liqueur given a sign of approval (6)
Evidence of editorial changes certain to be found in Times? (8)
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Vicar of Bray perhaps less fat (7)
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From an 18th century song, the earliest version of which was entitled “The Religious Turncoat; Or, the Trimming Parson” The Vicar of Bray humorously (take my word for it or follow the link) adjusted his churchmanship and politics to suit the prevailing fashion. At a stretch, we have two definition, one by example, hence the perhaps.
Ornamental cloth and headgear being worn to hide a knight turning up (9)
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Usually on a horse but with a derivative meaning nearer to our definition. Headgear: CAP, being worn: ON insert A and a backwards (turning up) SIR for knight.
One finds things funny? That's horrible in genuine upset! (7)
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REAL for genuine “upset” with UGH for “that’s horrible” inserted.
Bone in bird swallowed by tot (7)
What baby may be — innocent, clutching mater excitedly (9)
Cat perhaps with need to chew piece of material (7)
An artist holding stick up in the country (7)
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A small country tucked away in the Pyrenees, most of whose population turn out to form a football team, when they’re know as Andorra Nil. AN plus RA for artist, holding a stick: ROD backwards
Girl put right or left alone? (9)
Vessel in harbour, almost one that could be mistaken for another (9)
Out-of-form team wrongly positioned on field (7)
Something fibrous turning up in eggs — and beer! (7)
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Contained in your tendons and sinews. Eggs are NITS, beer is ALE, reverse the whole lot.
Playwright entertaining a man of colour? (7)
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The playwright is Harold (long silence) PINTER (a drip splashes in a bucket). Insert A.
What you'd find in the kitchen — Aga best for cooking? (3,4)
Governing bodies in London region given additional seat (7)
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