Getting ready for the start of punitive damages (11)
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Across
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Getting ready for the start of punitive damages (11)
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Drink and party endlessly wearing skirt (7)
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Chocolate confections which are usually eaten about midday (7)
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Plank 8? (3-2-4)
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Little picture of poinsettias (5)
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Your money's worth giving for tea clue? (4,2,8)
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Fastidiousness of society rip-off (10)
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Extremely ambitious politicians: one of them killed Shakespeare's Cleopatra (4)
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Singers reported in the paper (5)
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Current conductor left inside motor starter (9)
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Rubbish surface turned into something suitable for lawn (7)
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Height of sculpture is about right (7)
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Sea essentially still and flat (11)
Down
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As expected in what you do, keep hearing you are to follow strange echo (3,3,3,6)
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Provide enlightenment and exalt leader stepping down (5)
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An aristocrat who swings both ways is not quite right (1,3,3)
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All NHS leaders have duty to pro­tect personnel from infectious disease (7)
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Nightlife mostly turns into a type of entertainment for high flyers (2-6)
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Without a doubt, transfusions with blood regularly administered (2,3,4,2,4)
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Buyer's pro tem infractus est (6)
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Parasite seen in experimental test tubes (but eradicated) (6)
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Script of bodice ripper originally found in abandoned toilet (8)
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Rejected in Vietnam: capitalist game of greed (3-3)
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Dumas' second character Aramis could be a swordsman (7)
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Ultimately just cause for betrayal (7)
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Hermits occasionally getting into sex that's explosive (6)
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Notes on a fish? (5)