Across
In which to wrap cold fish skin? (9)
Raw meat changing hands (5)
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FLESH with the L replaced by R
A lot of water gathering in cheap AC if I connect (7)
Classical scholar — shocking ignorance? No, no! (7)
One ceremonially necked sloe gin periodically (3)
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sLoE gIn; odd construction, but clear enough
See the country in its entirety? (7,4)
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crypticky double definition (DD)
Meaty dish leads to really agonising joint pain (6)
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R~ A~ GOUT
Challengingly pitched battle on river (8)
Girl embarrassed over admitting anything (8)
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AUGHT in RED reversed
At sea, giant recovery vessel brought back toy boy (6)
Italian team secured; could Spurs be like this? (11)
Best toy (3)
Fagin criminally acquiring hard American currency (7)
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H A in FAGIN*
Mass stress evacuating a small city (7)
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M EMPHAasIS
Bit of info okay for Russian corporation (5)
Train Issy Bailey, back to entertain old country (9)
Down
Copper penny placed on the Spanish assayer's bowl (5)
Moving slowly, using hoist when shipping whiskey (7)
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wINCHING
Roughly, fiver ought to cover Charlie's prezzie? (4,7)
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C in FIVER OUGHT*
Provoke enlightenment when giving speech (6)
Wizard chap entertaining US soldier and spies (8)
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GI CIA in MAN
Charge iron-clad terminal of electrode (3)
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~E in FE
For the select few, English literature is translated into German (7)
Holiday cash antipodean yob received from Spooner (9)
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swap the first letters of MONEY HOON, then go to the dictionary to find that a ‘hoon’ is indeed an Australian hooligan. So, quite a common word, I guess.
Fiddle, perhaps, a recurrent problem for seer (11)
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NO STRAD (FIDDLE, PERHAPS: I think what the setter is getting at is that a Stradivarius is not something one would usually refer to as a ‘fiddle’, even if STRAD is indeed sometimes clued as a fiddle) A SUM reversed (recurrent); I needed all of the cryptic to avoid falling for ‘Nostrodamus’, which has happened in the past.
Bloody cut of beef as well as symbol of order (3,6)
Plant acorn I've cultivated (8)
Angry, in an excited state and tense (7)
Army recruiter leaving the old Queen room (7)
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KITCHENer; he of ‘Your country needs you as cannon fodder’ fame
Spare agent takes on work by Kipling (6)
Adolescent infatuation over a Turkish title (5)
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PASH A; I’d never heard of the slang term, but it’s pretty obvious – crass, even
Mad after uncovering weapon (3)
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bARMy; a nod to a group of well-heeled, insular, travelling supporters who swell coffers wherever they travel
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