Brand new university appointee’s mislaid cope (4,2)
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Too dry to wear something up top (2,4)
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One man’s name and number being ill-directed? (8,8)
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I’ll take badgers a drink (3,3)
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Fish with it: rivers matter (11)
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A near-Earth asteroid with the coordinates of comms facility (7)
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Code bearer carries refined poet’s words along parts of canal (7)
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Birth to 2-year-old & 9+-year-old groups look to be excluded from these (3-8)
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Briefly horrible, honking smell at source? (8,8)
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Repair 75% of car light bulbs (6)
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Understood terms have not been taken in (2,4)
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Brand new university appointee’s mislaid cope (4,2)
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Predator plunges medic upside down into Löwenbräu? (4-6)
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Prepares for engagement feast and stocks reserves (6,2)
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Carmen playing in top theatre is inspired? Mercury seen to rise in it? (1,5,2,3,5)
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One leading Kurds from the south can unite (4)
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We’re not for feeding easy answers from the floor (4)
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Forgetting conflict, rather wary about part of army set (2,3,5)
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Weaver locked in cell since not entirely religious event of 1819 (8,8)
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Coke woman’s snorting up features in Scottish tour (3,5)
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Virgin hunted down in reception (6)
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What’s at #20 – with missing humour – is ___ (4)
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Left downtrodden, 20 writer does object to worship (4)