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Old broadcaster’s second trailer for good stuff on compiler (5,9) |
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THIRD PROGRAMME - I think I have this sorted out... THIRD PROGRAMME was an old radio station. So THIRD would be trailing second, then PRO(for), G(good), RAM(stuff), ME(the compiler of this crossword). |
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Frolic about, holding a pen (5) |
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KRAAL - LARK(frolic) reversed containing A |
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Land almost nothing, after a West Indian lands one (10) |
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AZERBAIJAN - ZER(o) after A, then BAJAN(West Indian) containing I(one) |
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Injurious commercial, very Irish (7) |
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ADVERSE - AD, V, ERSE |
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Came together and kept busy at the guillotine? (7) |
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KNITTED - double definition, referencing the crowd in front of the guillotine bringing their knitting to do between executions |
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Like some spuds? I had to speak (4) |
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EYED - sounds like I'D |
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Agreed toe is deformed somewhat (2,1,6) |
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TO A DEGREE - anagram of AGREED,TOE |
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Doctor percussing a lot who will get you looking better (7,7) |
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PLASTIC SURGEON - anagram of PERCUSSING,A,LOT, though the defintion is up for debate |
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Simple game won’t come to an end — I go to bed (10) |
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SNAPDRAGON - the game of SNAP will DRAG ON |
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Queen cross with regiment holding up drink (9) |
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ALEXANDRA - X(cross), AND, RA(regiment) under ALE |
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Useful feature to order any time (7) |
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AMENITY - anagram of ANY,TIME |
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Managed to support some good books: here, The Castle? (7) |
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OTRANTO - RAN(managed), TO under OT(good books). Got this from wordplay and thought it might have been a physical castle, but it is a book by Horace Walpole. OK, it appears there is a physical castle from comments, but the question mark seems to indicate that the clue is referring to the book. |
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Rev Vicar’s first study, say (5) |
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VROOM - V(icar) ROOM(study, for example) |
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Bullet hit pest (4) |
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SLUG - triple definition! |
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