Marriage added to traditions that we recently abandoned (7,5)
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Marriage added to traditions that we recently abandoned (7,5)
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Fat blokes concealed signs of what’s to come (5)
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Colourings? Yes, time to be put into puddings (9)
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Waste a sporting triumph (7)
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Active type, welcoming party, flipping left: he seems bored (7)
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Revolutionary party in thrall to curiously gauche Marxist (3,7)
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‘Long-limbed?’ Scratching head … shaped like Humpty Dumpty! (4)
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Major name in astronomy (4)
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Putin’s aim: to finally shatter belief in better world (10)
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Flatbread taken from fellow at lunchtime? (7)
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Principally, Achilles’ heel dipped in waterway somewhere in Greece (7)
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Top biscuit (9)
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French river a little Frenchman’s in (5)
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To sum up: conservative puncturing diversity’s sister principle (2,10)
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Grim mating activity including silly leer (9)
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Rolling Stone icon on perpetual comeback tour (8)
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As mausoleum’s location is seen in Algeria? (5)
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Danger, by the way, for those over 70 (5,4)
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No, I sun myself up in the country (6)
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Anglo-Saxon king, large, wanting the trimmings (5)
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Fragmentary picture of ancient lawgiver (6)
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Leprosy not beginning to upset bird (6)
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Expressing ill-will, three engaged in civil unrest (9)
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Lad musing about member of association (9)
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Component of woven arc is sinuous flowers (8)
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A French experimental composer’s release (6)
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Escaping from trap, Dracula’s prey increasingly beastly (6)
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In Bond, female bodyguard almost given licence to kill pandas like this? (6)
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Ora pro nobis’ partly offering protection (5)
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Sign-off that might end with an ‘x’? (5)