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• Unholy fiend wiping brow (4) *
• Staves off hail with periodic rites (6)
• Nick and Bobby (3)
• Halfwit forgetting ID, a Greek character (4)
• Nailed by judge, a blighter hanging (8)
• A red America's revolutionary comradeship (11)
• Drop the odd bit of slang (3)
• Male cat's turn to cry (5)
• Right of entry after a final bit of cold calling (9)
• Headed off mayhem with a gathering of fruit (7)
• Terminal a bit erratic, containing an alloy (9,5)
• Last book of the Old Testament (7)
• Risk a ticket (5)
• Really, really big (7)
• In Manet's A ____, bottles of Bass can be identified (3,2,3,6,7) *
• Our style guide warns against confusing "____” and "imply” (5) *
• Clock-maker's half-hearted fear carrying box (9) *
• Shrek's companion (6) *
• "Give [a] baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it ___ to a doctor should be called in at once” (Jerome K Jerome) (7) *
• A couple that's overly outspoken (3)
• Item carried on 1930s "Guinness for strength” posters (5) *
• The nature of words like "newspaper” and "litter bin” in a Monty Python sketch (5) *
• In German, what we once called the "German Ocean” (7) *
• A children's novel and TV series about a girl who lives in a residential care home (3,5,2,5,6) *
• Peregrin ____ is one of the first members of Frodo's group in The Lord of the Rings (4) *
• "Sainsbury's apologises for ____ faux pas in Cornwall” (Times headline in 2021) (8) *
• What a relief when taking Pakistan's last wicket (4) *
• The 1309-76 period when popes lived in Avignon is sometimes called the "____ of the Papacy” (10,9) *
• A column with symbols and figures, usually near a Pacific coast (9) *
• A decisive gun-fight or part of a sporting contest (8) *
• X's predecessor and in another sense successor chirping (8) *
• ____ appeared in early episodes of The Goon Show and later made a puppet-based children's TV series (7,7) *
• Beatles song with the line "Ah, look at all the lonely people” (7,5) *
• The only survivor of the Pequod's sinking in Moby Dick (7) *
• Parasites perhaps put nothing back into Dawn's Society (8) *
• "Too often the Ukrainian issue is ____ as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West.” (Henry Kissinger) (5) *
• In 1992, Leicester Polytechnic became ____ University (10) *
• Before about 1920, an underground chamber or insulated building, possibly in the grounds of a stately home (8) *
• London's ___ Gardens (3) *
• Quaker in the woods (9) *
• Like some clouds and kittens (6) *
• Quaint double contraction (6) *
• Language suffix (3)
• Imaginative car Lily redesigned (7) *
• Chaney of horror (3)
• Let borrow (4)
• Jointly (8)
• Grab hold of (6) *
• Fruit, soft and fleshy (5)
• First person in jazz making three-note chord (5) *