Gulf City, Japanese mount, securing Ascot’s first cheer (8)
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Across
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This fighter set out to damage legislature (8)
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Split personalities then repair boat? (6)
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Right to back vote for a woman (4)
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More than one competent fighter strips outside town (5,5)
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Entity issuing fire, like working TV? (6)
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Italian writer admitted time was not kind to those hearing this case (3,5)
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Sort of mechanical man’s knocked out of cup (7)
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Writer emphatically does not like the teeth of some animals (7)
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Armstrong, say – or GNORTSMRA? (8)
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It houses royal secretary who’s paid to assist doctor … (6)
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… the King was in this depressed state (4,6)
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A selection of Turkish tobacco rolling one way and the other (4)
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Quietly great player acquires instrument for a pound? (6)
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Is it Lynam and O’Connor circling one officer sees? (8)
Down
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Gulf City, Japanese mount, securing Ascot’s first cheer (8)
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Read cons will be waiving right (4)
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Wine-carrier fine muddling along (6)
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The authority with which one rules one’s robes a joke (7)
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It’s payback time for us English, landing in States (8)
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A rising couturier Nick dresses like a star (10)
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Employee of 14 bar counsel at first oddly rejects (6)
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Good Catholic is still looking after aging birds (10)
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After correspondence, friend departs to the far south (8)
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Refinement links to the French Riviera? (8)
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Broadcast grenade warning on the piste (2,5)
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Rising marksman recording shot (6)
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Corrupt chamber appears to be working (6)
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Beer in a fancy wine bar’s neglected (4)