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A rally regularly held in old Asian city for capital street trader (6,4)
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A + R{a}L{l}Y [regularly] contained by [held in] PEKING (old Asian city). Pearly kings and queens are traditional London costermongers whose ceremonial clothes are lavishly decorated with pearl buttons.
This onion on reflection could make you cry (4)
Writer constrained by constant urge? Never! (8)
Having one's head above water, beginning to accumulate cash in hand (6)
Little green men fib during answer (6)
Measure of energy ultimately powering steamer at sea (3,5)
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{powerin}G [ultimately], anagram [at sea] of STEAMER
Maybe 20 spoilers? A tad naughty! (8,4)
An important character in the school play (3,9)
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A double definition of sorts. The play is by Harold Pinter.
Kept nice spot semi uncovered always for magnum opus (4,4)
Sweet wine container always crossing river (6)
Enquire after cross spun fabric (6)
A sheepish character papa, in his dotage, ran amok (8)
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RAM (sheepish character), P (papa – NATO alphabet), AGED (in his dotage)
Country hotel acquired by bad lot (4)
Caution driver initially in pursuit of New York taxi? (6,4)
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YELLOW CAR (New York taxi), D{river} [initially]
Down
Eastern wharf maintaining a record for fairness in employment (5,3)
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E (eastern), QUAY (wharf) containing [maintaining] A + LP (record)
King put on upper-class, grand wig (3)
Years working the borders of Kansas. Years and years (5)
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Y (years), ON (working), K{ansa}S [the borders of…]. This dates from the 1960s but there’s no definitive explanation of how it came into being. The most popular suggestion seems to be that it’s in some way derived from ‘donkey’s years’, an expression that also means ‘a long time’.
Popular elected government briefly upset with EU (2,5)
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IN (elected), EU + GOV (government, briefly) reversed [upset]
Former PM succeeded, with happy attitude all round (9)
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GLAD (happy) + TONE (attitude) containing [all round] S (succeeded)
Express tribunal unfortunately admitting obstruction (6,5)
Filthy rich boy entertaining old English duke (6)
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LAD (boy) containing [entertaining] O (old), then E (English), D (duke)
Flexible group of musicians that might make a bundle (7,4)
Play in which Puck comes to a sticky end? (3,6)
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Cryptic with reference to hockey sticks and ‘puck’ as the flat rubber disc used as a ball in the game
Listen to intro from Hammond organ? Absolutely! (4,4)
Commander barking mad, terrible liar (7)
Front page headline about power cut (6)
Small part arrived, leading to Oscar (5)
Maurice occasionally knocked out a French classic (3)
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{m}A{u}R{i}C{e} [occasionally knocked out]. This is a reference to the classic annual horse race, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
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