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Unbroken company detachment retreating in common sense (10)
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CO UNIT (detachment) reversed in NOUS (common sense)
In favour of hosting University rowing crew, perhaps (4)
People with servants reduced period in service (7)
Swimmer ready to keep fit with training (7)
Restaurant prosecution mostly about nothing after dessert returned (9)
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TART reversed (dessert returned) the O (noting) in TRIAl (prosecution mostly)
What's the point of extra minute in sleep? (5)
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double the M in COMA; the comma is used as a decimal point in Europe. Is that what the setter is getting at?
Feature of stage act? Compère's introduced a good one (5)
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A G (good) I (one) in MC (Frenchified compere)
Any pistol will shatter these locks (9)
Nearby? Almost all close, I'd fancy (9)
Country network backed including recording (5)
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EP (record – ‘extended play’ from vinyl days) in LAN reversed
Yellow stone, not dressed (5)
Religious figure tucking into fish — curious problem (9)
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NUN in COD RUM (curious)
What's originating from criminal? (7)
Biased article in Paris — flinch when one's put out (7)
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UNE (article in Paris) QUAiL (flinch)
Energy certainly seen in storm centres (4)
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E YES
Fools ecstatic tackling start of major tax process (10)
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ASSES M (initial letter of Major) in SENT (ecstatic: ‘You send me – honest you do!’)
Down
Astronomical object with tail and wake incomplete (5)
No reduction in jam, accommodating a large yearning (9)
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NO LG (abbreviation for ‘large’, along with lge.) in STICk (jam/stick, as in the CD has jammed/stuck); YEARNING as an adjective, of course
Duplicates collapse of titanic swindle (9,5)
Release American gin around November (7)
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N in US TRAP (‘Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is set for him?’ Amos 3: 5)
Free meal, no starter, central course (not starter) (7)
Dislike sulphur being kept away from reactive metal (5)
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sODIUM
Medley of Lehar has listeners interrupting run-through (9)
Standard fashion regarding shirts in Northern town (8-2-4)
Unpleasant things in male mood — something burdensome (9)
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ILLS in M TONE
All but meaning to regulate press (9)
Petitions involving two Conservatives beginning to see positive result (7)
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C C in SUES (petitions) S (initial letter of See)
Teeth study right to have change of heart (7)
Weapon readily found round Lake (5)
Fine upset corporation importing chlorine (5)
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CL in TUM (a crossword favourite, where corporation means stomach) all reversed. Not a very common word; it means to cheat or defraud, to fine, or a fine. I blithely biffed the clue and thought MULCT was mulch, without writing in mulch – if you follow what I mean.
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