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Proposed bathing lake for a paddle (5)
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BADE (proposed) around (bathing) L (lake)
Lawn game put away without a ball served (9)
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CROQUET (lawn game) ATE (put away) – (without) A
Attachment on plugs from now on attached to plug (9)
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RE (on) in (plugs) HENCE (from now on) next to (attached to) AD (plug)
Student group gathering in university? (5)
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FORM (student group) around (gathering in) U (university)
Company land grabs cultivating endless corruption (13)
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CO (company) NATION (land) around (grabs) TAMING (cultivating) without the last letter (endless)
Wild curry leaves are reportedly arriving from the east (4)
Made without stock, gravy can stretch (4-2-4)
Bloody yellow-jacketed bees buzzing around jams and fruit (10)
One of old rotating ball pens? (4)
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reversal of (rotating) ORB (ball) around (pens) I (one of old) Roman numerals are old. I mean, all numerals are at this point.
Wrestling confederation's ace is very cocksure (13)
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anagram of (wrestling) CONFEDERATION whose (‘s) A (ace) is replaced by V (very)
Charlie crashing Polish Fiat (5)
Girl, no stranger to lower scores, turned over answer papers (9)
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MYRIAD (scores) reversed (turned over) A (answer) ID (papers) I saw MAID straight away, and spent the rest of the solve trying to figure out a word for ‘scores’ starting with ‘M’.
Volunteers painting poorly-lit boards around station feature (4,5)
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TA (volunteers) + DARK (poorly-lit) in (boards) OIL (painting) reversed (around)
Local objector losing pounds in fast (5)
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remove (losing) L (pounds) in NIMBLY (fast) “Not In My Back Yard”-er.
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One's wobbly and pale, scratching bottom with skin condition (10)
Get clean fires with hard wood (3)
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WASH (get clean) – (fires) W (with) Not nice with the word ‘hard’ in the clue.
Secretive matter requiring attention goes to auditor (6)
Arrange to have medicine bottle returned if no good (9)
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CURE (medicine) around (bottle) reversal of (returned) IF NO + G (good) I have feelings about the wordplay here. Technically, there’s nothing wrong with it, but if you say “reversal of X Y Z”, it feels a little unfair to have that mean Y X Z. Yes, yes, lift and separate and all that, but in this case I feel that “I must say what I mean” is being taken a bit far.
Conclusion of two contrasting periods coming up (5)
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AGE MO (two contrasting periods) reversed (coming up)
Object after evacuation of floor in university block? (8)
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END (object) after removing middle letters from (evacuation of) FLOOR in UNI (university) This was one of the only clues where I really had the wordplay wrong, but managed to see the answer from the checking letters. I think I thought the answer was going to be ‘object’, but then ‘after’ is really unaccounted for.
Despot's end connected to incendiary bombing may be this (11)
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last letter of DESPOT (despot’s end) + anagram of (bombing) INCENDIARY
Get married in city boasting fine cathedral of trees (4)
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put (get) M (married) in ELY (city boasting fine cathedral) Is there some meaning of ‘fine’ I’m not understanding here? Seems superfluous.
Retired engine parts assembled on a line employing imperial measures? (11)
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reversal of (retired) LOCO (engine) in (parts) anagram of (assembled) ON A LINE I had NONCOLONIAL for a long time here, but knew it couldn’t be right because I wasn’t using an ‘E’. I also had no idea of a synonym for ‘engine’.
Bank limits left earl with 500 on account (10)
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RELY (bank) around (limits) PORT (left) E (earl) + (with) D (500)
Director checked material having spent time reflecting on it (9)
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TARTAN (checked material) – (having spent) T (time) + reversal of (reflecting) ON IT
Minister suppressing recording's nervy ending (8)
North African close to climbing secure borders (6)
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reversal of (climbing) NAIL (secure) around (borders) BY (close to) Another one where the wordplay did fool me. I felt sure we were going to have a ‘G’ in a word meaning ‘secure’. I know the African continent fairly well, and know which countries have the right number of letters and which are in the north, but even after getting LIBYAN from the crossers, I had trouble seeing how the wordplay worked.
Harvard student keeping daughter secret (5)
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CO-ED (Harvard student) around (keeping) D (daughter) I guess CO-ED is a term we only use here?
Glaze's tangy ingredient? (4)
Bow's hurt ability to throw (3)
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dropping the H in (Bow’s) HARM (hurt)
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