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Ben follows drunk sailor, but not literally (2,2,5) |
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SO TO SPEAK - SOT (drunk) OS (ordinary seaman) PEAK (ben). |
6 |
Blimp maybe one caught by wind condition (5) |
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COLIC - COL (Colonel Blimp?) I, C(aught). |
9 |
Recalled letter by queen and one by king bearing fruit (7) |
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KUMQUAT - All reversed (recalled): TAU (letter) Q (queen) MU (letter) K (king). |
10 |
Heightened pressure sadly set back Swedish university (7) |
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UPPSALA - UP (heightened) P (pressure) ALAS reversed (sadly, set back). Pleasant university city north of Stockholm. |
11 |
Instrument’s one needed earlier during part of flight (5) |
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SITAR - STAIR being part of flight, move the I forward. Indian stringed instrument. |
12 |
Sodium and potassium — deadly mixture — in plant (5,4) |
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NAKED LADY - NA (Na, sodium) K (potassium), (DEADLY)*. The Belladonna Lily plant. |
13 |
Beds, for example, or large, heavy drawer (5) |
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SHIRE - double definition, a county or a shire horse. |
14 |
Issue of spouse of Liberal visiting rebuked: should have rung earlier (9) |
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STEPCHILD - STEP (rung, before) CHID (rebuked) insert L. |
17 |
Woman chasing my large dog back in Irish town (9) |
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BALLYMENA - MY L LAB = my large dog, reverse that and add ENA a woman. Town of 30,000 people in Northern Ireland. |
18 |
Females opening have to cut mistakes (5) |
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MUFFS - MUS(T) = have to, cut; insert FF females. |
19 |
Sort of water supply perhaps not encountered before near delta (9) |
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UNMETERED - UNMET (not encountered) ERE (before) D(elta). |
22 |
Bound to be fired after penning note (5) |
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LIMIT - LIT (fired) has MI (note) inserted. |
24 |
Possibly using medium of culture noire, short ITV broadcast (2,5) |
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IN VITRO - (NOIR ITV)*, where NOIRE loses its E (short). |
25 |
Enrage local feeling with speech (7) |
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INCENSE - Sounds like (with speech) IN SENSE = feeling. |
26 |
What keeps drawing animal home (5) |
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EARTH - double definition, one an animal home, and the Earth draws because of gravity? EDIT thanks to pootle73 being first to explain it, it's ART = drawing, inside EH = what? |
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Paintings have captured a horse race on island (9) |
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TAHITIANS - TITIANS (paintings by him) has A H(orse) inserted. |
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