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More than one criminal child is involved in creative pursuits (9)
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SON IS, in the ARTS, creative pursuits
Down-and-out old boy entering house (4)
Head of academic staff welcomes street preacher (7)
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A(cademic) + ST(reet) in POLE
Cold Italian region identical to English one (7)
One faced with predicament in row? This could offer some illumination (5,8)
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I + PLIGHT (predicament) in STRING, row.
Vegetable foodstuff essential to bones? (6)
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as in bone marrow. Mine has been causing problems this year. The bone marrow biopsy was excruciatingly painful, avoid them if you can.
Manage after form of therapy to get hold of huge medical instrument (8)
There may be a cafe here, by the way (8)
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another slightly strange clue, but indeed there are roadside cafés, I suppose.
Phone back about computer program and flap (6)
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APP, a computer program, in TEL (phone) reversed. A word I knew from that seminal work, The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter.
Member of cabinet revised payroll, somehow dismissing aide finally (4,5,4)
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*(REVISED PAYROLL), less the (aid)E. Wikipedia has a complete list of the incumbents going back to 1306, but it has been a sinecure for many years and I bet you can’t name the current one.. whenever I see the term, I think of The Frost Report..
Like leader of Samurai, say, with first-class sharp weapon (7)
Problem with concentration? Maybe this is needed for the solution (7)
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A CD I think, the idea being that a solution that is overconcentrated is too thick and needs thinners, white spirit perhaps if it’s an oil-based paint.
Food enthusiast needing large input (4)
Rude man is wrong person to be looking after children (9)
Down
Passage under a home? No (4)
Society in need engaging partners at table who will provide cash (7)
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S(ociety) + NS (partners, at the bridge table) in POOR, in need.
No errant suitor embraces love like Don Juan? (9)
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NO, + O in *(SUITOR). Don Juan is a fictional womaniser who appears in a number of poems etc and in one of Mozart’s operas, Don Giovanni.
Plain stage, place emptied out (6)
Holy soldiers lament having interred one saint somewhere inside church (8)
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SA (the Salvation Army, holy soldiers), + I S(ain)T in CRY, lament. I found this tricky to parse! But shouldn’t have. My father always had a soft spot for the Sally Army; he said that during the war (ie WWII) they would do anything, go anywhere to support the war effort.
I'm confused having accepted politician's expression of discontent (5)
Item of food — it goes into bottomless hole (7)
Elaborate embellishment involving funny tiger and tea (8)
All-encompassing means of stopping undesirable elements? (8)
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A DD. An umbrella organisation comprises or represents many others.
Concept of modern physics raised issues involving velocity (5-4)
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PACE (velocity) in EMITS (issues), reversed. If we are talking physics, pace does not strictly equal velocity. Speed yes, but not velocity which is a vector quantity.
A divine Italian home including old extension (8)
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A DD (doctor of divinity) + IT(alian) + O(ld) in IN, home.
Dispenser of perfume? Loos are transformed (7)
Doughy grub? Dad eats nothing when fasting is fashionable (7)
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O + LENT in PA, dad. Polenta is cornmeal. It is nice sprinkled over chips, before cooking them in the airfryer..
Seafood bringing some regrets, you being upset (6)
Face tackling a good heathen (5)
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A G(ood), in PAN. Meaning no. 11 in Collins is “ a slang word for face. ” News to me.
Feature of crossword — hard work with any number to be got out (4)
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GRI(n)D
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