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Brightness shown by English in old Welsh county briefly (5)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
GLAMorgan is your old Welsh county, and still the Welsh First Class County Cricket team, and actually still existing as the Vale of Glamorgan and Cardiff. Welsh aficionados may wish to develop this theme with actual facts. Regardless, insert an E(nglish)
Tree harsh old American disposed of in a song (9)
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Now I know this, and how it’s spelt, because of Reverend John Galbraith Graham MBE, setter for many years of the Grauniad Crossword, who picked the name because it’s the monkey puzzle tree. Here, it’s RAUCOUS for harsh minus the O(ld) US, set inside A ARIA, a song.
Sports club employee: no good? He delivers (9)
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Ours used to deliver milk in the Jurassic era of the Fifties. GROUNDSMAM, but no G(ood)
Twangy start to accompaniment disturbing northern girl (5)
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The first of Accompaniment within N(orthern) and the random girl Sal
Novelist's crazed beast caught between two similar crossings (4,5,4)
Couple taken in some time after retirement (4)
Poor American lad losing heart, like some senior councillors (10)
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An anagram (poor) of AMERICAN plus a heartless L A D
Aristocrats, small number moved by current sign (10)
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Small number is No, moved by current BLEW, sign OMEN
Celebrity using half of capital touring India (4)
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Half of LONdon with NATO India inserted.
Untried bridge-player with drinks in antipodean state (3,5,5)
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An untried, NEW bridge player SOUTH W(ith) drinks, in this case ALES. Well done if you paused to parse.
Tenor taking break with daughter (5)
Peculiar to a big lob, it's essential to the score (9)
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An anagram (peculiar) of TO A BIG LOB. A musical must disguised as a cricket comment. Other sports are available.
Girls originally employed in banks look at ornamental gem (6-3)
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Are there unornamental gems? Anyway, Girl’s first letter contained in TIERS from banks with EYE for look at.
Travel about carrying small shrub (5)
Down
Having set up gear, learner cooked, entertaining new sweetheart (10)
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RIG from gear, reversed (set up), L(earner), FRIED from cooked containing N(ew)
Coin once used in City University (3)
Frenchwoman's mother in West? (6)
Toothless type in drama oddly having the Italian look (9)
Seize woman not fully identified (5)
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A charade of ANNE X, possibly the Boleyn girl when keeping her identity secret was necessary.
Deceive a few about source of mulligatawny soup (8)
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CON deceive, SOME a few plus the first letter of Mulligatawny, which is a curry favoured soup.
Highly populated like Lincoln? Not initially (11)
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Abe, of course, without his P.
Supporter missing start of political gathering (4)
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The start of a RALLY goes missing.
Songbird enveloped at first in brightly-coloured flags (4,7)
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The first letter of Enveloped in RED for brightly coloured and BUNTING, little flags.
I manage to catch CO and son overturning electron camera (10)
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I COPE, or manage, containing CO and a reversed (overturning) SON. I reinvented this early device.
Celebrate wildly, being suitable for putting up (9)
Main feature of gundog, away in Scotland for first time? (8)
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A gundog might be a SETTER. Replace the first T with AWA Scots for away.
Like flying birds circling new canvas sunshade (6)
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Flying birds are AWING, insert (another) N(ew)
Bracing air a person found round most of animal park (5)
Time to get up and do the press chief's job (4)
Reportedly next in line's bearing (3)
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