Across
Cameron is bonkers taking on international federation (10)
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anagram of CAMERON IS around I Straightforward anagram.
Initially panicky at security, holding thing for someone else (4)
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first letters of PANICKY AT SECURITY HOLDING The only question here is whether PASH is a word, and it is.
Is jog in onset of high winds blustery? (8)
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anagram (winds) of IS JOG IN + H{igh} Another straightforward anagram.
Sibling's issue when PE goes awry (6)
Scene of miraculous delivery and end of openers' stand (6)
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{opener}S + TABLE
Totally preoccupied with scrap upset stewardesses' boss has (8)
Rowdy spree with leader delayed after policeman finally finished striking individual (5-7)
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RAZZLE (rowdy spree) with R moved to the end, after BOBBY + {finishe}D After the previous six straightforward clues, here we have the difficulty of the puzzle in a nutshell. Okay, BOBBY is easy enough, but if you haven’t heard of the answer and you don’t know of RAZZLE as a rowdy spree, this is just a slog.
Virgin queen lacks extremes of all-day cavorting (7-5)
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anagram of QUEEN LACKS A{ll-da}Y Back to anagrams.
Little protects tragic little girl actress (8)
Cleaner's rent changing hands (6)
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BREACH with R changed to L How does ‘rent’ = BREACH? I guess I’m used to thinking of ‘rent’ as the past (participle) of ‘rend’, but apparently it can also be a fissure. I’ve never heard it used this way in American English.
Tax collector no longer charges double for drink (6)
Fielding man's instructed to go back, covering spell with early duck (3,5)
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SENT (instructed) reversed around MOJO (spell) with one O (duck) moved earlier SENT = ‘instructed’, I suppose? In any case, fortunately I’d heard of the character in question.
Where consumers may be served pickle (4)
Skins of dry hands, not his ultimately (10)
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PARCH (dry) MEN (hands) + last letters of NOT HIS This was my third-to-last in. I feel embarrassed to have not seen it sooner. PARCH means ‘to make dry’, and obviously ‘dry’ means ‘to make dry’, but somehow I don’t think of these meanings as synonymous. I think of PARCH as ‘to dry out’, whereas ‘dry’ means ‘to un-wet something’. Am I crazy? Perhaps.
Down
Union agreement to limit current oxygen consumption by screening apparatus (5,3)
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I DO (union agreement) around I + O + TB (consumption)
Having no end of superego, or ego, driving identity (3)
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OR EGO with all occurrences of the last letter of SUPEREGO removed This is probably a driver’s license (licence) of some sort?
What one with hooter outside might make (5)
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I in NOSE (hooter)
Meet online about supporting school gossip (7)
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ZOOM (meet online) reversed under SCH Surprisingly, it took me a long time to think of ZOOM! It’s a part of our lives now, but I still don’t really think of it as such.
Band together to trail crows — not very fair game! (4,5)
Defeat? Odds of it's at about 50-50, then Zimbabwe's tail bat (11)
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PIP (defeat) + odd-numbered letters of IT’S AT + RE + L L (50-50) + {zimbabw}E Here was an annoying one. If you didn’t know the word, there’s a lot of ways the end of the wordplay could be interpreted.
Run through small garden here, starkers (6)
Windsor, for example, commonly incarcerates marines scattering people's litter? (5,2,4)
It's one way to finish Twin Peaks (6,3)
Most cunning bears beginning to want reserves (3,5)
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ARCHEST under W{ant}
Hurricane expert, possibly advanced by dint of overturning bunkum (7)
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A + VIA + ROT reversed
Fruit pastry he's adorned with flowers? (6)
Hard to follow profile of one expecting papers (5)
Depression following husband's departure to make whoopee in Ibiza (3)
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{h}OLE Probably my favorite clue of the puzzle.
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