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State agent caught you — beginning of life in pen (8)
Deft chopper eliminating American (6)
Support in French monarch’s household protects mature people (13)
Black cat energy (6)
True account by cleric (8)
When drunk, never share, lacking resistance and respect (10)
100 trapped in mine maybe frozen (4)
Join a returning vessel (4)
Upset record previously charted at fourth and fifth positions only (10)
Expert meeting crude dancing farmer? (8)
Band beginning to sound rubbish (6)
Aging tips, time to change — it looks no different! (8,5)
Got hot soaking up bit of sun? (6) 🏆
Biased eastern revolutionary driven through with spike (8)
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Carbuncle I noticed when chatting (7)
Without trial incarcerating prisoner — no questions asked? (11)
Look to take advantage of miserable individual (5)
Cash for one slicing tea bread (7)
Cries, deleting one chapter, done with rewriting climax (9)
Jacob’s mother possibly lives in Tunbridge Wells (3)
Name read back — misspelt it nevertheless — missing some letters (7)
Engineers instinctive about vehicle revived with new body (11)
Sailor read aloud, not enjoying the first time, gave up (9)
Bans volunteers no longer welcoming one member of serving staff (7)
Four of them are on the fiddle! (7)
Full development of much of Peterlee (7)
Dash into store on vacation for waders (5)
Fish leaving hint it might have been kept in well? (3)
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