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Total construction reduced to powder (4)
Seductive invitation to advance success with woman (4-6)
I don’t believe you coach robbers in this? (7,3)
Small boat for start of adventure (4)
Barman in clubs given free clothing (6)
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FRAN~K (free) containing [clothing] C (clubs). César Franck is perhaps best known for his Symphony in D minor a piece I came to love when I studied it for O- or A-level Music..
Herb returning a cheque, only half of amount (8)
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A + GIRO (cheque) reversed [returning], NUM {ber} (amount) [only half of…]
Fish beginning to acquire thought (4)
A minute seaweed and partner combine (10)
Do like senior executive: toss one diamond after another on table? (6,4)
Scoff about withdrawing appeal for silence (4)
Big stone landed hard on a valuable one lying around (8)
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A + GEM (valuable one – ref: stone ) reversed [withdrawing], LIT (landed), H (hard)
Religious house overlooking crucial thing in urgent matter (6)
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PRIOR {it} Y (urgent matter) [overlooking crucial thing – it ]
Common sense surely not useless (4)
Noted suite set out following specific blueprint (3,7)
Taken to court to keep quiet urge prohibited (10)
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SU~ED (taken to court) containing [to keep] P (quiet) + PRESS (urge)
Children’s author was made to turn left (4)
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HAD (was made to) reversed [turn], L (left)
Down
In translation, reorder sad English poem (1,3,3,4)
In post after tea covering for old soldiers (5,4)
Plant early bird among spies (7)
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LARK (early bird) contained by [among] C-IA (spies). Early bird as in the saying, ‘Up with the lark’. NHO.
Consume such fine ham, prepared all alike (4,2,1,8)
Fish finger girl needs for this? (7)
Flier put name to protagonist (5)
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HERO (protagonist), N (name)
Band touring almost every region (5)
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RE~M ( rock band) containing [touring] AL {l} everything [almost]
Busy with score of satisfactory quality (2,2,7)
Referred to people I noted wandering about (9)
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MEN (people), anagram [wandering] of I NOTED
Signal extremely short period of time checks (7)
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WHI~LE (period of time) contains [checks] S {hor} T extremely
Drank regularly, with Oscar for one, and fell over (7)
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TIPPLED (drank regularly) becomes TOPPLED when O (Oscar) stands in for I (one)
Naughty girl, they say, wearing these? (5)
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Aural wordplay [they say]: “minx” (naughty girl). I was one letter out with my answer MINIS. My faulty logic was that the famous naughty girl in The Beano comic was called Minnie, but if I’d thought a little longer I’d have remembered that the title of the strip was Minnie the Minx .
Odd that doctor’s admitting man with bellyache (5)
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