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Carefully study stanza and discuss (8)
Plate hot starter in Raffles: happen to devour that? (6)
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H (hot) R (R~) in COME (happen, as in ‘Dawn comes early in July’)
See t-tutoring tricky to take in with tortuous talking test? (6-7)
Parched, stopped by pub: The Globe (6)
Article horde rotated in vault is WMD (4,4)
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A MOB reversed in TOMB; a weapon of mass destruction that actually existed
Trouble coming after ring names a drug supplier (10)
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ADO after BELL N (name) N (name) A (A from the clue); a plant not a narc
Get the round in — that which may be carried (4)
Comply with old Turkish governor (4)
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O BEY; in crosswords, BEY and DOGE as governor and REEVE as magistrate are staples
Dance where the last shall be first in mock revelation (10)
Cheeky display preceding second-hand books launch? (8)
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MOON (to display one’s bottom) S (second) H (hand) OT (Old Testament); it’s interesting that in Rabbit Redux John Updike uses televised coverage of the 1969 moon landing (specifically the gobbledegook of the transcript between Mission Control and the modules) to point up the deathliness of the human relationships over there in the fictional twin towns of Brewer Mt Judge. For those who haven’t read Updike, he makes Ibsen look like Kingsley Amis.
Quiet party ushered inside notice seaport (6)
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SH DO in AD; three short crosswordy words for Israel’s busiest port, not a million miles away from what is left of Gaza
Harry Kane rages — shot unexceptional (2,5,6)
Group round bar back for court proceedings (6)
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INN in SET all reversed; we’re getting quite a lot of court stuff for tennis these days
External layer red with comet disintegrating (8)
Down
With eight members the Spanish set firm up (7)
Victor somehow done with right and left — see new politician (3,3,5)
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V (victor, as in the NATO alphabet) DONE* (‘somehow’ being the anagram indicator) R (right) L(left) EYE (see) N (new); an interesting character with multiple talents, not least a putative penchant for taking short cuts to obtain her thesis
Wake from sleep — plan to introduce oxygen (5)
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O in RUSE
No inclination to listen to school board (7)
Drink packed with fruit, and cheers for the sausage (9)
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HIP (fruit, of a rose for example) in COLA + TA
Aggressive behaviour Proust periodically exhibited (3)
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pRoUsT; was Proust really any more aggressive than other writers, Frenchmen? Answers on a postcard….
Instrument doctor's used to probe a von Trapp (7)
Outlaw hit and killed by fragments (5,3,3)
Henry feeding daughter diet that's immortal? (9)
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H (Henry) in D (daughter) EAT LESS (diet!)
French cheese stores have rich cake (7)
Group from the south races alien in green (7)
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TT (races, Tourist Trophy, on the Isle of Man) ET (alien, who phones home) in ECO (green) all reversed
Having circled both poles, track back (7)
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N S (north and south, thus ‘poles’) in SPOOR (track – the marks or traces left by a hunted animal)
Enlightened sort, a bowler perhaps restricting runs (5)
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R (runs) in A HAT; a somewhat (but not, I hope, over-vigorously) disputed concept in Buddhism; one rung below a buddha, basically, so pretty meritorious, which is what it means. Scandinavians are about as close as you can get nearer to home.
Leaders of Greeks, Italians, and Norwegians in Geneva (3)
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