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1 Raciness giving a girl a bit of oomph? (5)

Get up around noon and wash (5)

Go down as the originator (7)

Go along to the doctor to get fit? (5)

OK for audio (5) Round bird? (5)

Fight to get a comic character to the top (5-2) Sausage ingredient that’ll make you look tired (3) Anger, possibly hate (4) It’s good, say, for carrying water away (6)

By railway, again, it’s not far (5)

20 Something written in parenthesi­s? (6)

You could call it bubbly (4) Liquid used in one’s toilet (3)

The opposition’s contention? (7)

Fire breather maybe, but he’ll be half dead by Monday (5)

Is a high one infantile? (5) Study briefly (5) Related in edited form (7) In fact, try out a superior student (5) Whether or not adjacent to London, it’s in Ireland (5) 6 9 10

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Go after a cash prize out of turn (6)

Follower of a cause (6) Point raised in talking to doctors (3)

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