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Brilliant rescue dog detailed to enter cricket club (7) |
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CLASSIC - CC cricket club has LASSI(E) a 'detailed dog' inserted. |
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Horse carrying disease endlessly spread (9) |
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MARMALADE - MARE the horse has MALAD(Y) inserted. |
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Song about stinker seen in rural idyll (7) |
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ARCADIA - ARIA (song, as in 18a), has CAD (stinker) inserted. |
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Style shown in being short with the French (7) |
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ENTITLE - ENTITY = being, shortened = ENTIT, LE the in French. |
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One to support stocking revolutionary American poet (9) |
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SUSPENDER - SU = revolutionary American, SPENDER as in Stephen Spender a poet. |
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Husband tucking into liqueur that’s got body (7) |
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CHASSIS - CASSIS a blackcurrant liqueur, has H for husband inserted. |
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Agreement achieved with three tens, minus tips (7) |
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ENTENTE - (T)EN, TEN, TE(N). |
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Researcher wanting this instruction to make tea? (9) |
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DOCTORATE - to get TEA you need to 'doctor' ATE. First instincts were that a doctorate is a qualification being sought, or obtained, but here it refers to a person in course of obtaining one, perhaps with an added word 'student' being understood. EDIT there again, as pointed out below, if the definition is "researcher wanting this" it works. |
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Romanians on the rampage in small republic (3,6) |
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SAN MARINO - (ROMANIANS)*. |
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Alligator is one regarding soft floor covering (7) |
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REPTILE - RE (regarding), P (soft), TILE (floor covering). |
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Prepare without finishing and study in China (7) |
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DRESDEN - DRES(S), DEN = study. |
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Long article about a provincial Greek (7) |
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ACHAEAN - ACHE (long), AN (article), insert A. An Achaean comes from an area of Greece in the NW Peloponnese. |
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Wine stain unfortunately showing up (7) |
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MARSALA - MAR = stain, ALAS reversed. |
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After correction, smile, as lacking purpose (7) |
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AIMLESS - (SMILE AS)*. |
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