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Bar in joint shortly receiving musical backing (8)
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ELBOW (joint) minus the last letter (shortly) around (receiving) CATS (musical) reversed (backing)
Player struggling to control each extended period (4,4)
A French girlfriend, potentially volatile (8)
Losing focus, Ctrl perhaps opens small window up? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
KEY (Ctrl perhaps) without the middle letter (losing focus) in (opens) SLIGHT (small) I guess ‘focus’ can mean the central letter.
Join investment scheme with carrier bag, lacking good capital (5,5)
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ADD (join) ISA (investment scheme) + (with) BA (carrier [British Airways]) BAG lacking G (good)
About to mingle with welcome drink (4)
Nasty male will want to discard wife (7)
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HE’LL (male will) WISH (want) without (to discard) W (wife)
Signal for E in between eg newspaper work (7)
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DIT (signal for E [in Morse code]) IN inside (between) EG
Cleaner energy pessimist (4)
Old-fashioned cricketer's 2 for 4? (6,4)
Part of dish to be arranged by length during dinner? (8)
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TBA (to be arranged) + (by) L (length) in (during) MEAL (dinner?)
One on one contest led by host nation (8)
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I (one) next to (on) I (one) BOUT (contest) after (led by) DJ (host) Didn’t know DJ as a host, only MC. Also, I thought surely DUEL was going to be in the answer somewhere.
Perhaps Man United no longer deployed video recorder when out of formation (8)
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anagram of (deployed) VIDEO RECORDER – (when out of) ORDER (formation)
Sincerely accepting award for a fish (8)
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REALLY (sincerely) with (accepting) DBE (award) instead of (for) A Did not know DBE, which made this hard. Tried REMBELLY for awhile but that did not look right.
Down
Lazy bishop with single mention of God's image (4-4)
Lesson that's annoying, with two interpretations of Oman's capital (8)
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TUT (that’s annoying) + (with) O RIAL (two interpretations of Oman’s capital) The former being the first letter, the latter being the currency.
Raccoon-like mammal's trimmed fur (4)
Heavenly city opening for atheist in error (7)
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ELY (city) + first letter of (opening for) ATHEIST in SIN (error)
American in Virgin spacecraft (10)
Harmonious arrangement ruined if he sung (4,4)
Getting into a lather largely due to obsession (8)
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FROM (due to) without the last letter (largely) THING (obsession)
Hand position — is it raised first? (10)
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STANCE (position) with IS + SA (it = [sex appeal]) reversed (raised) first
On reflection, some reworded a memo, hardly unmanufactured (8)
Something for chaps, cheek by jowl, finally entering bar (8)
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LIP (cheek) + (by) last letter of (finally) JOWL in (entering) SAVE (bar)
Setter supporting what 6 might find flat and very boring (8)
Extremely large naan to tear, freshly produced? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
first and last of (extremely) LARGE + NAAN TO anagrammed (tear) Maybe ‘tear’ here means to race around?
I put up with left-wing liberal taking university over (7)
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RED (left-wing) LIB (liberal) around U (university) reversed (over)
Pint and three quarters of liquid diesel in the van (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Times for the Times have:
MIL{k} (three quarters of liquid) + first letter of (in the van) DIESEL I saw what was going on here, but what was the meaning of pint here, and what was the meaning of MILD? I considered WIND (WIN{e}+D) as well, but finally decided that if there were bitters, there could also be milds. Might have taken me 7-8 minutes to get this one.
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