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Autocracy with real subversion? (7)
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Give-and-take retailer was ruined, old man keeping quiet (4,4)
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Obstacle in hollow filled with French earth (9)
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Stern, say, man with strap-on locks (5,4)
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Old, awful wine, not half! (3,2,3)
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Olive briefly sheltering black bird (5)
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Wait, old leader’s back’s gone! (4)
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Where something latched onto about programme leaves producer? (3,5)
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Cast done talking? (5)
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Bunfight that’s sickening ends it a fitting way? (6,3)
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Grant for example cut, according to dictator? (4)
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As cream may be, grainy? (7)
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Percentage of litre, a clear, sweet liquid (7)
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Copper ring in standard tap (8)
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Antelope raising twin goats (3-3)
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Cheeky thing south of London in song on the radio? (8)
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With article breaking, bear in mind it could be – ours? (4,2,7)
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Possible couch potato internalising variety of woes (3-6)
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Some FO-OTBALL result? (8,4)
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Emperor’s new clothes, third stuffed into brown case (8,4)
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Flag in Spain gone with TV broadcast (6,5)
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Vulgar, a word that’s void in essay (6)
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Might her inattentive husband be, reportedly, playing around? (4,5)