Across
Poor, cutting short stag party (4,2)
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HAR[t] + D.U.P.
Judges restricted choice of dessert? (8)
Type of solid fish almost, not about to be caught (8)
Poorly dressed apparently in old kingdom (6)
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A RAG ON.
Conspiracy of silence breaks at Rome (6)
Person taking in hospital bible, showing proper demeanour (8)
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BE(H, A.V.)ING.
Street musician after endless wild party more annoyed to secure no date (5,7)
Organise meat to be cooked for unconventional household (6,1,5)
A boy always safe with cooking equipment (5,3)
Joint freer after manipulation, if energy put in (6)
Agency arresting scoundrel, a chirpy type (6)
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CI(CAD)A.
Radio is crook (8)
Choice includes a base metal or precious one (8)
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PL(A TIN)UM.
Nervous, holding forth in loud, aggressive manner (6)
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SH(OUT)Y. I just could not see the cryptic as I solved, and put this in very reluctantly as a cryptic definition. I would say shy is a bit of a stretch for nervous.
Down
Given assurance, from public library order in a book (6)
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A(P.L. + O.M)B. A clever but difficult clue until you get some crossers.
Decline appointment, keeping outside but dropping by (11)
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D(E[x]TERIOR)ATE, probably a biff for most solvers.
Confine confusion in magic diagram (9)
Revolutionary task acquiring current home (7)
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J(A/C)OB + IN.
Secret police having initially hunted for one secret store (5)
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STAS(-i,+H[unted]).
Woman, Verdi heroine who loses her head (3)
Proclaimed aim to cuddle cat (8)
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EN(OUNCE)D.
Sadly unloved, me: is no one ever to be in my arms? (5,2,4)
With no end of space, looks for oil that may be on one's estates (4,5)
Corps put up for such corrective treatment (8)
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R.E.M.E. + LAID upside-down.
Puzzle as small irritant's overthrown sheep (7)
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GNAT upside-down + RAM. To be solved at the beach!
Object to name having to be changed around (6)
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RESE(N)T. The only weak clue; reset does not mean to be changed. The editor should have taken out the ‘to be’, IMO.
Twist flipped over new cocktail ingredient (5)
Back in first part of post-lunch period (3)
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