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1 One relatively apt to wail unhappily about the National Front? (2-3)

A pair to pick up with (5) Naval hero, but a beast (3-4) Speak harshly, maybe heatedly (5) Supporter, maybe with power (5) Mendelssohn’s pet? (5) Naturally a crow may carry on eating it (7)

Pure water deserves due mention (3)

Dash from Ireland (4) Tries a change of style in humour (6)

The boy Derek, about six, a mischievous imp (5) 20 Seemed good hearted in distributing dole (6) Animal of the most agile kind? (4)

Lad twice in prison for arson (3)

Solvent of very good quality (7)

Nautical nonsense? (5) Forename of many an artist (5)

Piece of turf with a hole in it! (5)

Lofty accommodation of some shifty retailers (7) If the audience can’t hear it, nobody can (5)

He’s my boy! (5)

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Nominal shortages are usual (6)

A tough direction (6) The little we note (3) Historic but unoriginal 6 7 8 12 13 14

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19 21 points (5) Interesting form of coal pit (7)

Stone animal taken round New York (4)

One whose business is booming? (6) Deceptively fed full of beef? (5)

Wherein monks make batteries? (5)

Rant about love, perhaps, and betray (3,2)

Do fully (5)

An iron club (5) Because evil has its ultimate price (5)

How a wanderer may get out of line (7)

To do wrong and possibly lose out, can mean a lot (6) 22 23 25

26 28 Are astrologers thus eyed? (6)

He alone moves out around midnight (6)

In a terrible gale, one needs to be nimble! (5)

Nail him! (4) Something hard to value highly? (3)