Across
Probe deep mental impression (5)
Inexperienced hack receives key preliminary report (9)
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NEW (inexperienced), SLASH (hack), insert F a music key.
Romance relies on this go-between (9)
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MAN is in the middle of romance.
Stock ending for rude joke (5)
Do well dividing four-fifths of one plus two by four (6)
Fox to live a more feral life (8)
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to be wilder being to live a more feral life.
Doctor is averse initially to making bold claims (9)
Piece for example about unpleasant material (5)
Insist sports must involve cycling (5)
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WEARS = sports, cycle the S to the beginning.
What puts off cleaner using hoover finally for good? (9)
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DETERGENT changes the G (good) for R (end of hoover).
Certified examination having had daughter take it (8)
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ATE (had) D (daughter) with TEST inserted.
Start of appeal proceedings affecting particular chambers (6)
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A[ppeal], TRIAL proceedings. Chambers as in the heart.
Charge of French writer diminished Italian poet (9)
Respect to cast is only shown under exceptional circumstances (3-6)
Polish author overwhelmed by death (5)
Down
We recalled published, unused books lacking complete clarity (15)
Subject to EU articles (5)
Take away something vital, say (7)
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if you de-livered someone, you’d have removed something vital.
Insensitive note carefully hiding doubtful statement (4)
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N.B. (nota bene, note), insert UM a doubtful statement.
Shrink still regularly used other material (10)
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WINCE (shrink), YET (still), oThEr. I knew of this soft cotton material as Mrs P (now 80) has sported nighties made of it for some years now, referred to as “my winceys”. Apparently winceyette ( used from 1922) is a diminutive of wincey, itself a material, but the etymlogy of wincey is unclear.
Cast admitting exhausted ensemble is a sensation (7)
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FLING (cast, throw), with E[nsembl]E inserted.
Exuberant quality of a social event providing cake? (9)
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A BUN DANCE could certainly provide cakes and buns to eat.
Struggled to find inspiration and livened the party up (15)
Psychic underground worker filled with sense of foreboding (4-6)
Was set terribly hard work here? (9)
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(WAS SET)*, H[ard], OP = work.
Book somewhere to watch big game perhaps (7)
Train elite unit erecting climbing frames (7)
Senseless way in which space and time end (5)
Stick helpful pieces of advice up (4)
Type letters or click words in the clue