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Writer of volume twenty-six needing editing (8)
Caught express naval transport (6)
Lowest point of North America? Earth almost (5)
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N + A + DIR(T).
Cricketer securing duck to end career? This can be moving (9)
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BAT around O after [to end] SPEED. I am sure that many know that Don Bradman got a duck in his last Test innings leaving him 4 runs short of an average of 100. I don’t know about moving but it must have been very annoying.
Strength one found in used flavouring (9)
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(ARM + I) inside SPENT.
Provide staff for protecting very good rock artist (5)
An insect in the WC? How to keep one's distance? (7)
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A LOO FLY. Amusing.
Gets up around noon and washes (6)
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RISES around N. The first of the escapees.
Military policeman cut down outside Washington (6)
Animated cow lacking sign of hesitation to butt in (7)
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(ERM)INTRUDE. Younger viewers and foreign correspondents might be rather perplexed by this reference to the much beloved cow in the children’s TV Series from the 60’s and 70’s, Magic Roundabout (though I see that there were some later revivals in various formats). In case you have all forgotten, Zebedee was the magic Jack-in-the-box; Dylan the rabbit; and Brian the snail. “Hello, dearhearts” was apparently Ermintrude’s catchphrase. Hopefully reasonably easy to biff for those not in the know.
What's ultimately in copter, gyro, turbojet, dynamo and mower (5)
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Final letters clue.
Seaplane flying either side of key seafront area (9)
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(SEAPLANE)* around D [a key in music]. Another gentle one.
Running late, sailors must grab eats (9)
Angry with copyright infringer stealing page (5)
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(P)IRATE. Chestnutty.
Runner perhaps of company division (6)
Church measure unknown burial ground (8)
Down
Like a planet that is framing sun rising in front (8)
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This is (I.E. around SUN) reversed [rising] inserted into VAN. One of the trickier clues and a word I probably have never seen, though eminently deducible and unlike (for me) the two long down clues, it was straight in.
Mantel, say, came first with good English (5)
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LED + G + E.
Large ship having broadcast facility with transmitter (8,7)
How old ironwork deteriorates is truly awful (7)
Misadventure not ruffling calm (15)
Group of monstrous sea urchins — bottom drawer's contents? (9)
Assigning rank to crew member (6)
Judge taking steer about court employee? (6)
Upset finished project (9)
Sons always see acutely (8)
Favour bringing umpire in for each (6)
Standstill with idiot stuck in drive, no learner (7)
Sexy and courageous, destroying hearts, ensnaring tons (6)
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(H)EROIC outside T. Was looking for two T’s to begin with, then remembered that it might only be one.
Saying unhappy wise man never has succeeded (5)
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