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9 Whatever happens and however fast you’re travelling (2,3,4)

Fancies capturing, in pictures (8)

Wintry weather is healthy, you say (4)

Spill the beans about a carousal (6)

A quick way home, for the worker (7)

Flower found in the jungle? (5,4)

When I rang off, she had added the finishing touch to the dish (9)

Shorten to the short “Are sick” (7)

20 Names the various characters in (6)

Undecided, to start with (4) Asked, pathetically, to be looked after (8)

26 How the driller went on and on about his job? (8) With the hardwood, make a mess of (4)

“Kicking up a dust”, I gently interposed, “is silly” (6) Goes over one’s adversities (7)

Finds, too, in the records (9) Owning up, when giving notice to take a job on (9) That repartee of the woman’s just makes one wilt (7)

By ten, about, something cold to eat does seem tempting (6)

The story is good - set in the City (4)

Think it’s about time to act as go-between (8)

A memo about the residue (9) 10 12 13 14 15 17 18 21 24 28 29 31

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20 22 The way you refer to is “Backward and pitiable” (8) The salon called it back in (6)

A friend back home got the data for the writer (8) Depend on me only (6) Double-talk? (8)

Who whipped the cream? (3,7) Comfortable though not chic - and one didn’t have to commute (5,2)

Die in a shipwreck coming back again (6) Inclined to be, when looking after (7)

If you think it out, it is justification for (6)

Winds up the entertainment at the Scottish festival? (5) Ready for collection (3) Unpleasant people you may 23 25 26

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33 35 36 37 tolerate only in small doses? (5)

Pries up with metal objects (6)

As it gains speed will, you understand, rock (7,3) The rotten fish is sent back (3)

Follows, in the gloom (7) Tormented, looked for a way through it (8)

Twice invite a rebuke (4,4) Nice work if you can get it! (8)

Go on a diet, out to look pretty when summer comes (7)

A part-time nanny nobody will miss? (6)

Not having got to the fore in one’s craft (6)

A policeman and a man that is out to obstruct (6)