Across
Account and article targeted backward scholarly world (8)
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All reversed; AIMED, AC, A.
Screw, small, fairly regularly used (6)
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alternate letters as above.
Prestige owner somehow expecting this feature? (5,8)
Vampires perhaps circling house in ludicrous descent (6)
This sharp-witted writer seeks, only in small amount (3,5)
One is securing trade? Credit mostly impractical (10)
Go separate ways when returning in carriage (4)
Second division game sometimes ending in this (4)
Year in France in region there finding source (10)
Cheers to follow check about goal in violent dispute (8)
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VET (check) has END (goal inserted, add TA (cheers).
Marauder one up for covering area (6)
Call for a visit excited great force abroad (8,5)
Revolutionary Indian instrument good for nothing (6)
Height of talent learner's shown for piano (8)
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APTITUDE has its P changed to L.
Down
Whose noted contribution is valued still in PC World? (7)
Clown is so dejected! (11)
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well, LOW is the “heart” of [C]LOW[N], and low can mean DOWN, so clown is down-hearted or dejected.
For customs, say what Panama has compared to Costa Rica? (5)
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it took me a second pass to see what was going on here. Simply, PANAMA has three As and COSTA RICA has two. So, MORE A’s. Doh.
Temperature doubled in a drain almost causing crack (7)
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TT inside A, EMPT[y] = drain almost. Crack as in ‘have a crack at something’.
Show power in second challenge that ousts king (9)
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P in SEC[ond], TAC[k]LE.
Place on the radio for string of bloomers? (3)
Great sliced sandwiches at Henley meeting? (7)
Extremist brutal having released new form of radiation (11)
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ULTRA (extremist), VIOLENT loses its N.
Tearaway has drive round middle of Slough (9)
Expert having to conceal a butchery tool (7)
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CLEVER (expert) with A inserted.
Air on with AC needing fix — something blown (7)
Redcap initially stopped guards in need of evening out (7)
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CEASED (stopped) with R[edcap] inserted.
Transformation with scope to have sex change? (5)
Grizabella maybe right to leave Barrow (3)
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CART (barrow) loses R for right. Apparently Grizabella is a character in Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats, which I have never seen and never will; I dislike the whole musicals genre. I knew she isn’t a character in T S Eliot’s original Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, which I do know and like. Wikipedia tells me that the musical has added characters, some of which were in unpublished drafts by TSE, including Grizabella, so I’ve learnt something new.
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