Across
Feature of garden city after call to incorporate river (8)
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BI~D (call) containing [to incorporate] R (river), BATH (city)
Diplomat’s gift starts off incredibly cunning ruse (6)
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TACT (diplomat’s gift), I {ncredibly} + C {unning} [starts off…]
Cartoon dog and cat keeping animator ultimately a rich person (9)
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PLUTO (cartoon dog – Disney ), C~AT containing [keeping] {animato} R [ultimately]
A lot of sentimental nonsense reflected by completed review (3,2)
English Republican backed following European stand (7)
Body of learning that is recalled about large element of Rhine mythology (7)
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LORE (body of learning), ~ , IE (that is) reversed [recalled] containing [about] L (large). The mythical siren and the actual rock on the Rhine on which she is reputed to have sat whilst luring sailors to their doom.
Released Iran papers etc in coverage from that area? (7,6)
Bit of childish fun agitating press barons, I finally assume (9,4)
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Anagram [agitating] of PRESS BARONS I {assum} E [finally]. A children’s game involving two teams, members of which chase and capture each other to increase the number of children in their own base. Another resort to aids here. I was going to say I never heard of it but it appeared once previously in a puzzle 15 years ago when I also didn’t know it.
Gamble, losing power? Regret past fabrication (7)
Old ideal shattered, split by pressure of some Freudian concept (7)
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Anagram [shattered] of O (old) IDEAL containing [split by] P (pressure)
Delete time stamp except at the outset (5)
Unused capacity? Way best to harness it when recalled (9)
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LA~NE (way) + TOP (best) containing [to harness] IT all reversed [recalled]
The very thing to be included in college constitution (6)
Trees etc depicted in lines by English writer (8)
Down
Shepherdess’s dance involving physical exercise and energy (2,4)
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BO~P (dance) containing [involving] PE (physical exercise) + E (energy)
Pathway unconventional, but getting right to the top (5)
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OUTRE (unconventional) becomes ROUTE when R (right) is moved to the top.
Internet commentator and forestry worker supporting book (7)
The strike will incur a lot of staggering urgent government business (5-4,4)
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TH~E WHIP (the strike) contains [will incur] REELIN {g} (staggering} [a lot of]. A written notice, underlined three times to denote urgency, to members of a political party to attend a parliamentary vote.
A curtailed court case involving America and another country (7)
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A ~ TRIA {l} (a court case} [curtailed] containing [involving] US (America)
We will capture circuit and end of race using special photography (4-5)
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TIME~S (we) contains [will capture] LAP (circuit), then {rac} E [end of]
Mediterranean islander represented in Troy epic (8)
Potent starlet revealed by my working? (6,7)
Isn’t in lead over the whole war game (9)
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AIN’T (isn’t) contained by [in] PB (lead), then ALL (the whole)
English dog, surrounded by offspring, reared to be smart (6,2)
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E (English) + CUR (dog) contained [surrounded] by PU~PS (offspring – of dog ] all reversed [reared]
Lavish work curtailed, then advanced (7)
Depression, drowned in beer, not yielding much? (2,5)
Likely to have Liberals displaced in Yorkshire town (6)
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LIKELY with the Ls (Liberals) displaced becomes ILKLEY as referred to in the Yorkshire song On Ilkla Moor Baht ‘at ( On Ilkley Moor without a hat ).
Chief, though not number one? (5)
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The hint in support refers to the number 1 not being a prime number.
Type letters or click words in the clue