Across
While singer goes around hotel, it's disgusting (8)
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ALTO around H + UGH
Group with intelligence probing what follows fa or do (6)
Striking German cycle on grassy area (10)
Some scoff "I won't pipe down" (4)
Feel how criminal gets riches and fateful revolver (5,2,7)
Beginning to strip, rip off long clothes? (7)
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first letter of STRIP + ROB (rip off) inside DIE (long) Nice &-lit!
Column but not newspaper's cover (7)
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PILASTER (column) – I (newspaper) Got this from the definition, and only parsed while doing the blog. The word PILASTER popped into my head, and I remembered that “I” is a newspaper over there.
Gag, as cracked by the French (7)
Charge £0.01 per person to cross motorway (7)
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I P EACH (£0.01 per person) around M (motorway)
Puzzle which involves energy, caution and discipline (5,3,4,2)
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THROW (puzzle) THAT (which) around E (energy) BOOK (caution) I didn’t know BOOK = ‘caution’, which is a sports verb meaning to write a player’s name down to warn them for bad behavior. But I was able to get this from the enumeration once I had some letters in.
African place to spend a penny whilst seeing wild animals, we hear (4)
Item for cleaning excessively black bird cages (10)
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TOO + THRUSH around B
How terrible daughter blocks catch with ball, at first (2,4)
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D in HEAR (catch) after O (ball)
Strength drug swallowed by Mr Muscle (8)
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ASSET (strength) E (drug) in MR Chewing muscle.
Down
Granted, nothing has yet been settled? (7)
Crossing path with one going around states (9)
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TRAIL (path) – I (with one going) around AVERS (states) I got this from the definition and some crossing letters. Couldn’t fully parse it at the time.
Part of a general misery in old town? Not half (7)
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HELL (misery) in O (old) TO{wn} Even after getting this, I was still mystified! Of course, ‘part’ here is referring to ‘role’. Lovely and misleading!
Blunder installing extremely inferior browser (7)
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GAFFE around first and last letters of INFERIOR From _ _ _ _ F _ _ and ‘extremely inferior’, I thought for sure the answer would be FIREFOX. Did anyone else stumble down that pathway?
Sauces from Italy served up and desirable sweet food (9)
Stun people who are inside entertaining clubs with cruciverbalists (7)
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CONS (people who are inside) around C (clubs) US (cruciverbalists) Inside prison, that is. This was a lovely one.
Set hammered gold on dresses without any frills (7)
The sticks supporter placed around Buddhist temple (9)
Item worn when eg, running dog gets fit (9)
Providing gospel, I will need two parts of the Bible (2,5)
Starter of Chinese leaves in pastry whilst travelling (2,5)
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first letter of CHINESE removed from EN CROÛTE (in pastry)
Reluctance to move home? It's overturned, in time (7)
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IN (home) + IT reversed in ERA (time)
Dashed hope upset proof-reader for The Sun? (7)
One hoping for a lift from big song, say, by pop singer (7)
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