Mariners with beers for each: they try to move stuff (8)
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Mariners with beers for each: they try to move stuff (8)
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Grotesque, having caught drunken expostulation (6)
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Say the thing (7)
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Land crumbling into sea (7)
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With energy, canter and get hitched on the run (5)
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Second lag (3,6)
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Focus, as this may provide you with drink (11)
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Scare away Ed Balls, showing aromatic ingredient (7,4)
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'All-star' assortment that includes Everyman: sense a problem? (5,1,3)
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Grasses often seen adjacent to violas etc? (5)
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Part of boat for rowing, or, we're told, one found on canal (7)
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Aggravated, annoyed? It's innocuous (7)
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Bar that will prove attractive? (6)
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Belittled as 'average', puncturing performance (8)
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Being held up, goes over what creates a gap (6)
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Cleansing substance's left unopened, 'magical concoction' (6)
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South American with reputation: bully that you can't criticise (6,3)
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Back-up for safety can be key when involved with merger (9,5)
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Some accoutrements being de trop (5)
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Disadvantage: partial hitch, and I capitulate (8)
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Crime novelist who may provide illumination? (8)
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'Allow the flesh to congeal'? Notoriously callous pronouncement (3,4,3,4)
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Patriotic icon loudly started to consume a wine served chilled (5,4)
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Primarily inclement, chilly – even Siberian – tempest, often restricting mobility? (3,5)
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Forest creature and ferret go wild (4,4)
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East African knowledge certainly not heading north (6)
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Rise like condor to begin with, then halt (6)
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Shapeless, abandoned (5)