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35 36 1 2 3 They’re spent making a bit of love amid the trees (6) It has a steadying influence in revolution (8)
Issue a note to me and Reg, possibly (6)
Active soldier taking the beer round (5)
Alarm seeming loud to a listener (4) Strengthen a delicate fabric (4)
Spinster in a state? (4) To finish up as champions (3)
One fled from the Islands (4)
Double top to start, then it’s victory! (4)
It can be auctioned for students’ benefit (9) Bigheaded fool, but a natural swimmer (4)
Want cash on account for a kilo (4)
Brotherly bunkum? (3) Like mackerel, really good (4)
Give out in time (4)
The silvery part is real! (4) Sound made by a person who’s lost his head? (5) Where Guinevere shows heart, Ada too (6) Social crawlers (8) Sailor with a fatherly look? (6)
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Non-vegetarian food the old king left (5) Misanthrope seeming not quite nice to little Cyrus (5) One going on foot (4) 4
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Swing round, not back (4) It could, of course, be a foreign part (6)
Such varnish seems a bit sticky to mum (6) Either way, a silencer (3) Wires that make the French terribly sad (5)
How to serve a friend with the last portion of fish (7) The garment for many a company head (3) Continental element? (3) Ran fast as the herd stampeded around us (6) Come to (5)
Take down what’s on the menu (3)
River of outer Torquay (3)