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Note agents attached to Liberal Party? (6)
After contraction, breathe artificially, deep down (2,5)
Comeback of actor Peter Flynn? (5)
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reversal (comeback) of LORRE (actor Peter)
If late, ref might give you hell? (9)
With current chauffeur personal visits (9)
Be romantically involved, as old flame might? (2,3)
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double definition, one cryptic
What can have you reversing in Australia after heading off? (4)
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YE (you) reversing in AUS (Australia) after removing the first letter (heading off) I guess this is the term in Australia — it’s also common in the US. I used to see it in US crosswords quite a bit, but not much lately.
Neglected to play a fun record (7-3)
Tense parent, endlessly strict, showing authority (4,6)
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PAST (tense) MA (parent) STERN (strict) without the last letter (endlessly) This took me forever. I immediately thought of the answer, but I thought the definition had to be ‘tense’, and that PA came from ‘parent’. Re-parsed after a nap.
Alarmed after a firm initially has gone bust (4)
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AFRAID (alarmed) after A and first letter of (initially) FIRM are removed (has gone)
Without a bishop apparently to give benediction (5)
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“B” LESS (= without a bishop apparently)
Examiner hosting circle outside term (9)
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TESTER (examiner) around RIM (circle outside)
Opera's curious piano turn: start of Act III (1,8)
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anagram (curious) of P (piano), TURN, the first letter (start) of ACT, and III
Market town's four turrets regularly picked out, to the west (5)
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every other letter (regularly picked out) of FOUR TURRETS, reversed (to the west)
Little illustration captures rather good Pole (7)
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FIG (little illustration) around (captures) ISH (rather) G (good) A harpoon, apparently!
Book flight out (6)
Down
Wrongly deem bus double parking to be hindrance on road? (5,4)
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anagram (wrongly) of DEEM BUS and PP (double parking)
One might enter garage to put this plant (7)
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one might enter garage to put CAR AWAY I laughed.
Fifties uniform is cracking live attraction! (6)
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LL (fifties, in Roman numerals) + U (uniform) in (is cracking) ARE (live) I think I don’t often know what the ! is doing in clues like this.
Place in church where convert's spoken out (5)
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ALTER (convert) replaced by homophone (‘s spoken out)
I'm starting — I must stop before entering high school (4,4)
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EGO (I) in (must stop) ERE (before) in (entering) HS (high school)
Rather tasteless, what a haggler seeks? (1,3,3)
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double definition
Knocking off daily (5)
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THE FT (daily) I was proud of myself for getting this one.
Upstarts from Standard and Morning Star (8)
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PAR (standard) + (and) VENUS (morning star)
Drink, healthy one, about a year back (8)
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FIT (healthy) I (one) RE (about) PA (a year = per annum) reversed (back)
Display team departs to occupy seats at the back? (3,6)
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D (departs) in (to occupy) REAR ROWS (seats at the back?) It would have helped if I’d heard of the Red Arrows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Arrows). For awhile I thought we might have something like ROW Y or even ROW Z for “seats at the back”.
Say nothing in stuffing small periodical in top drawer (8)
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SH (say nothing) IN in (stuffing) S (small) MAG (periodical) For a while I thought the magazine was I (that’s a thing, isn’t it?) and that we were looking for an Italian artist (drawer) ending -INI.
Having way with English, young setters maybe providing boosts (4-3)
Throw out alloys with sand (7)
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OUT anagrammed (alloys) with SAND
Last bit of pie: right to cut cheese off top (6)
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last letter (bit) of PIE and RT (right) in (to cut) VEX (cheese off) Very nice clue. My favorite.
Lawyer is British one interrupting judge (5)
Hint that wife must stop ringing (5)
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TANG (hint) that W (wife) is in (must stop)
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