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10. Phil Collins hit, A ...

Kind of Love (6) 11. Not illuminated (5) 12. Sanctuaries (6) 13. Military aircraft (8) 14. Merited (4-6) 15. Largest of the Society Islands (6) 16. Through (3) 18. Functions (8) 19. Vatican City basilica (2,5’1) 21. Left hotel (7,3) 24. Steamed pudding ingredient (4) 25. Absolving (9) 27. Miserly (4) 28. Punctuation mark (10) 31. Buffed (8) 33. Ornamental shrub (8) 36. End of sock (3) 3 7. Injustices (6) 39. Grinding halt (10) 41. Excluding, ... out (8) 42. Uncle’s child (6) 43. Body (5) 44. Male voices (6)

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1. Mighty flotilla (6) 2. Praise (10) 3. Explosive (8) 4. Manager (10) 5. Defect (4) 6. Actor, Sylvester ... (8) 7. Pizza topping (6) 8. Recompensed too highly (8) 9. Hayfever reaction (6) 17. House designer (9) 20. Outdo (5) 22. Wooden barrel (3) 23. Application (5) 25. Conifer (3) 26. Dent (10) 2 7. Unhappy event (10) 29. Strictest (8) 30. Steinway virtuosos (8) 32. Litigations (8) 34. Deed (6) 35. Mislaying (6) 38. Nobility (6) 40. Attraction (4)

Cryptic clues Across

10. Like an old record? Cool, man! (6) 11 Fifty in flat with no lights on (5) 12. Be in possession of directions to resorts (6) 13. Fighter jet goes at Star Trek speed on assigned track (8) 14. We will have made a wage that was richly deserved (4-6) 15. Hat on backwards? It initially infuriated French territory (6) 16. By way of part of Scandinavia (3) 18. Uses machinery to turn set around after musical drama (8) 19. Wayward stepsister is not going to church in Rome (2,5’1) 21. Looked into Czech doubt as requested (7,3) 24. Prosecute head teacher for being fat (4) 25. Counterfeiting ring – six inside for pardoning (9) 27. Base for statistics calculation (4) 28. It shows ownership can be perhaps too complicated (10) 31. Sophisticated journalist from Warsaw? (8) 33. Dromedary threw Ali into bush (8) 36. Where corn grows? (3) 3 7. Two of them won’t be right (6) 39. Complete stop on kiosk’s cash drawer (10) 41. In closing, thug isn’t reformed (8) 42. Company allows us in to see relative (6) 43. Roots tangled around trunk (5) 44. Singers get no rest break (6)

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1. Fleet to supply weapons to an American lawyer (6) 2. Remark about split lip taken as flattery (10) 3. Made tiny model of Nobel’s invention (8) 4. Marvellous eye shield for overseer (10) 5. Weak spot in floor, apparently (4) 6. Sly, stable individual (8) 7. Choose a different centre for dairy produce (6) 8. Given too much money to provide a replacement (8) 9. You will be blessed if you do (6) 17. He draws up plans to transform the Arctic (9) 20. Winning card held by president (5) 22. Drum found in Kenyan capital, for example (3) 23. Established practice for us over time (5) 25. Tree caught in crossfire (3) 26. Send-up makes an impact (10) 2 7. Translating menus for it brings bad luck (10) 29. Grimmest-looking saint enters unexpectedly (8) 30. They may expect a grand for their concert tours (8) 32. Jude needs executive attire for trials (8) 34. Combat director’s cue (6) 35. Tasting defeat as transgression is noted in captain’s diary (6) 38. Information regarding attempt to appear upper class (6) 40. Fly trap (4)