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Bowlers delirious about winning championship (5,4)
Head absent from school — a candidate for firing? (5)
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HARROW school loses its H. School isn’t Eton, for a change.
Hurried around excessively hunched (7)
Who in Paris is in ruins? De Sade, perhaps (7)
Fish returning for shelter (3)
Innovative job for gardener in east London? (7-4)
What tenor does with the French solo (6)
Part of navy force — great number in a bad way, note (8)
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F[orce], LOT (great number) ILL (in a bad way) A (a note).
Painful shivering after cold game (3,5)
Titled, His Excellency also said, but not a duke (6)
Digressions to trim with new dissertations (11)
Star visible from spaceship (3)
Valid pass test uncovered alternative names (7)
Celebrate one being included in list of potential players (7)
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I in ROSTER.
River Weaver's output (5)
Be sly once deviously and shamelessly (9)
Down
Fibre exists in half of plant-based meals (5)
Pointer about important dietary component (7)
Batter onion for troublesome customer (11)
Rarity in title given for Major Tom's exploits? (6)
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I don’t know much about the late David Bowie, but I did know that Major Tom features in a song called Space Oddity. “Ground control to Major Tom… ” and such.
Clearly slack in a lazy manner (8)
Look good topless (3)
Disc of short song, certainly banned (7)
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a ROUNDELAY is a short, repetitive song, remove AY = certainly.
Standing stone found in drained delta wilderness (9)
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a STELA is an obelisk or standing stone, insert into WAN = drained, add D for delta.
Nearly go out with bird, a young one from poor area (11)
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a candle nearly going out is said to “gutter”, and a snipe is a bird.
Second unknown work accepted by chorus claqueur (9)
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S[econd], Y (unknown) CHANT (chorus) insert OP for work. Originally, someone paid to clap in an audience.
Toughness of male chamois on the rocks (8)
Piglike ugly creature hiding in wood (7)
Sailor, say, in a small boat in river (7)
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RAFT a small boat inserted into the River Dee. My LOI as it took me a while to relate sailor to someone “drafted”.
"Very large flower" one associated with the Nile? (6)
Primitive, almost unstarted (5)
Mostly run up and down (3)
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