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Smart dish in toast that’s cut (7)
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Girl with plait, going right and left, plaited – this? (7)
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Bullies easy to defeat, we hear, in British sporting event (5,4)
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Great player in contest hosted by city of the Balkans (5,4)
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As infant’s movement odorous initially, full nappies emptied, or a potty (2,3,5)
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See 9
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See 17 Down
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Rousing stuff, I left amid applause at the end of the evening? (3,8)
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Motion passed in middle of 24-hour period? (4)
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Feller taking lift on saddle (10)
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Find a bridge beside stream (3,6)
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Leader in terrifying prat (5)
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Get rid of tips in cafe when tips collected (7)
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Support reverend, or several nurses (7)
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Little time upon hill in region (6)
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Two-foot fruit? (6)
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Fantastic tales concerned with river in South African city (4,6)
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Speed with which workforce set up? (5)
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Italian singer hearing one note in three, famously? (9)
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Rose garden we regularly cleared away (4)
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Ordering a beer – and being judged? (2,3,3)
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Bird with a long extendable neck? Or tucked in (8)
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Complete gent I suspect highly thought-of (10)
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Gritty, I’ve beaten you, nanna! (9)
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Puzzling score, tie fixed? (8)
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Tender scene where the Ponte Vecchio would take a battering after dark? (8,11)
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Might this car’s engine be purring? (6)
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Funny jokes about capital in particular – one of those? (6)
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Hammer beats tack (5)
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Sign you can’t trust Paul! (4)