Strangeness seen in a time where deceit is hidden (8)
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Don't attach much importance to power — give up (4,4)
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Troublesome place with an effigy? (6)
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I need source of metal, Al? Wrong! (4,4)
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Expert awfully nice about financial gain? The opposite (10)
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Backward boy, not about to become a chemist (6)
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Most primitive aristocrat that is a good man? (8)
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Stone tool in hotel ground (7)
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An eleven dismissed, not half worried (7)
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College gym by end of term in financial difficulties? (8)
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Explanatory figure lacking a couple of letters together (6)
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Being put out, goad union's dinosaurs (10)
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Well off, hiding nothing and gawping with awe (4-4)
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Think much of Paul? (6)
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School group getting a toy package (5,3)
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Strangeness seen in a time where deceit is hidden (8)
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See 24 across
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Clever move possible to get voucher? (6)
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Like a deficient cellist maybe, carrying on regardless (7)
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Versatile newspaper's feature — a relay race? (5,3)
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Making fun of it, as they would be! (10)
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Stops Shakespeare's Peter being heard? (6)
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Hospital executive is such a gossip (10)
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Excessively keen to start with, maiden maybe grabbed the reins (4,4)
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Woman very old to get married? It's not admitted (8)
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Rebels in 'shocking units' led by soldiers (7)
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Little bird — one finally given tag (6)
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Rubbish ex-PM, creating upset (6)
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