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Friend from Eastern Europe reported fall of King (9)
Part of leg somewhat laid back nurses start to ice (5)
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A BIT reversed around I
Root cut, following usual number of strokes (7)
Looking for enlightenment they quickly run through plot (7)
No place for carriage in mighty caper (5)
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GIGANTIC minus GIG (carriage) Ah, GIG, was it. Fortunately I didn’t need to figure out that part during the solve.
I will not run out of highway (9)
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INTERSTATE minus R Should have gotten this sooner!
Priest is missing a beat (3)
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LAMA minus A
Nervous feeling, say, associated with Burton's debut theatre part (11)
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UTTER with B + FLIES (theatre part) The FLIES are where the scenery are hung from, etc.
Waterproof, this is instinctive: spill tea! (5-6)
Introduction to Götterdämmerung that surprises me! (3)
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G
Unsteadily take aim at Balmoral boiler (3,6)
Cryptic pictures on public transport (5)
Chinese agent engaged in Washington diversion (7)
Why writer stops working? Good you hear this about pen (7)
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O INK IN (why writer stops working?) + G I mean, this is just brilliant.
Counterintuitively best fare from Bavaria — zilch for you in the end (5)
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WURST (fare from Bavaria) with O replacing U (you in the end)
Church reader, fast one, keeps time (9)
Down
Drinking this, the reverse of cappuccino? (5)
"Sinner" for "sinker"? I'm not sure — "singer"? Let me think (7)
Dangerous animal caught, nothing retarding cycles (4,5)
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C (caught) + O (nothing) + BRAKING (retarding) with the letters cycled I simply cannot wait for the commentary on this one. It’s almost as if someone wanted to find the most extreme use of this wordplay device just to rag some of the commenters here. 😉 Nevertheless, well found, setter!
Post a couple of applications (11)
Periodically, new baby will want a drop of water (3)
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every other letter in NEW BABY Brilliant again.
Numbers clocked by my employer (5)
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double triple definition ‘Numbers clocked’. Perhaps some will hate it, but I love it.
A bit miffed receiving only half as much rice (7)
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anagram of A BIT around the first half of AS MUCH
Append residence, look, beneath this? (9)
Child's character we think encapsulates "untrustworthy" (11)
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REACHER (Child’s character) in TO US (we think) Thankfully I was able to get this one because I needed vinyl to parse this one for me. I did not know the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child, aka Jim Grant.
The method underpinning entries in Crossword Championship spectacle (5,4)
Its influence is Sweet Charity in the setting for Les Misérables (9)
One pushing athlete, European, right to the very south of ground (7)
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TERRAIN with E+R moved to the bottom
Being divine, cheese is tucked away by girl (7)
Eve and Adam finally ran into someone doing the Eden Project? (5)
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last lettetrs of EVE and ADAM + MET (ran into) EMMET is a Cornish word for a tourist
Ridicule the people here about money (5)
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RAG US reversed
Pain riding horse (3)
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