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Landlord's enduring delay losing current legal document (7,6)
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LETTER’S + PATIENT (enduring delay) minus I. A type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president or other head of state. Interestingly (to me) the opposite of letters patent are “letters close” which are personal in nature and sealed so only the recipient can read their contents. In 35 years of being a lawyer never heard of the latter and never came across the former.
Mistimed shot through slips ... boundary! (4)
Lentil and bean in mixture spilt over this? (5,5)
Look inside skip for thin meat slice (8)
Channel swimmer crossing river (6)
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TENCH outside R.
Average sound reproduction perhaps with Bush player (10)
Nasty person so backward (4)
Game introduced to an early Olympic Games? (4)
One concluding art with no merit should be scrapped (10)
Beat time welcoming Rugby School skipper (6)
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TAN (beat) + T around RU. Great definition.
Preservative old drunkard consumed in endless crawl (8)
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(O + SOT) inside CREE(P).
Mean American holds leases in main region (7,3)
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BASE (mean) + A around RENTS. RENT can, of course, be both the payment made to use space and also a verb describing the act of doing so
Architect, male linked with a Stateside lawyer … (4)
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A + DA + M. Robert Adam (1728 – 1792) was the leader of the first phase of the classical revival in England and Scotland from around 1760 to his death. Many well known constructions bear his imprint – the one I should have known (but didn’t) is Pulteney Bridge here in Bath.
... still together (2,3,4,4)
Down
Vegetable, gas-friendly, needs cooking (5,6)
Foreign character's ambassador in temperate area (5)
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HE in (TT (temperate i.e. teetotal) + A).
Keeping gun raised, erstwhile communist not inhibited (9)
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Our erstwhile communist is an EX TROT into which we insert a reversal of REV.
Perhaps Nemo's position in minor title? (7)
Completely skilled, fit guards extremely dependable (5)
Writer, unknown, tucks into succulent fruit on the turn (5,4)
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Z inside a reversal of ALOE (succulent) + LIME. Biffable, but this one raised a smile, with a nice spot by the setter seeing the reversal of the “succulent fruit”.
Digital process starts from theory of everything (3)
Move a bar close to outdoor market (3,4,4)
Stern woman honoured in amusing books (9)
Repeat fee after European bank's set up (9)
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RATE (fee) after a reversal of E + TIER.
Wrench has fixed two-wheeler (7)
Article about Italian tax demanded by church (5)
Mystic Laplander drinking whiskey (5)
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SAMI around W.
Turkish officer edges away from infidel (3)
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(P)AGA(N).
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