Across
Lead to secure entrance (9)
Intention to keep note about criminal organisation (5)
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AIM (intention) containing [to keep] FA (note), reversed [about]
Space — it is awfully sterile (7)
Ravel's penned unusual Slav or Czech nationalist work (2,5)
Muslim ruler in Iraqi city having a change of heart (5)
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MOsUL (Iraqi city) [having a change of heart] becomes MOGUL
Cat has run in following men, reportedly in confusion (9)
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Aural wordplay [reportedly] MAELS / “males” (men), then TOM (cat) containing R [has run in]
Difficulties since introducing Greek (5)
Managed company move, mostly acrimonious (9)
Help curse get resolved in mummy's tomb? (9)
Passage from Jeffrey Archer? Stark, perhaps (5)
Measure of resistance as I am exercising west of Lambeth walk? (9)
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I’M (I am), PE (exercising), DANCE (Lambeth walk). ‘West of’ is a juxtaposition indicator. There’s an argument that ‘walk’ should be capitalised here since it’s part of the name of a real street in London as referenced in the song Lambeth Walk and the Cockney dance of the same name. Both featured in the 1937 stage musical Me and My Girl by Noel Gay with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose. In the 1980s the show was revived with a new book by Stephen Fry and ran successfully in the West End, on Broadway and toured for many years. It’s reputed to be where Fry made his first million. I won’t post a link to the tune as its a real earworm and you’ll be cursing me all day.
Skin gashes need iodine putting in (5)
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CUTS (gashes) containing [putting in] I (iodine)
Retired academics returning — it has to anger me (7)
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IT + IRE (anger) + ME reversed [returning]
Finish on note admitting end of symphony's turned bland (7)
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END (finish) + ON + A (note) containing [admitting] {symphon}Y [end of…] reversed [turned]. Handy that we had this only last Wednesday.
Dated tax article includes it (5)
It is unavoidable, distress when given dirt about son (5,4)
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NEED (distress), SMUT (dirt) containing [about] S (son). This appears in the proverb ‘Needs must when the devil drives’ meaning sometimes you have to do things you would rather not.
Down
Mass of insects small, getting close (5)
Go over need for measure of conductivity (6,3)
Bird landed, let out and flying low (6,3)
Unawareness in school about the Muppets' inventor entertaining one (15)
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IN, COMP (comprehensive school), RE (about), HENSON (Jim, the Muppets’ inventor) containing [entertaining] I (one)
Even Madge agreed: just not a good — a fantastic superstar (4,4,7)
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Anagram [fantastic] of EVEN MADGE A{g}REED A [just not a G (good) – i.e. only one of the G’s]. I had fun finalising the anagrist here! For the surface reading, Madge Allsop was the long-suffering, silent “bridesmaid” of Dame Edna as played on stage and TV by the actress Emily Perry.
Girl accommodating six in French farmhouse (5)
Shed much light in speech — it's a skill (5)
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Aural wordplay [in speech]: “flare” (shed much light)
Shrub one encountered right over in region of China (9)
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I (one) + MET (encountered) + R (right) reversed [over] contained by [in] ASIA (region of China)
Absorbed in thought about can having no alcohol (9)
Interfering in workplace, mostly dedicated but without power (9)
All yours open initially outwards yet ours upwards (4,2,3)
Grassy land in part needed for fold (5)
Spin perhaps is mostly nonsense (5)
You and I have sat around as one does in a sauna (5)
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