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5 6 8 Writhes breathlessly, as an author does (6) Shiftily lead me on with drink (8)

She goes to Rio in South America (4)

Gosh – what the Yanks call a big-headed Britisher! (6) Cheats badly, pretending to be virginal? (6)

The Great Gatsby’s gun? (3) Just William’s colour (5) Blends from out East (4) Writer of notes on a piece of poetry (5)

It’s said to have an arresting effect on sailors (5) Tough guy, a bit of a bully (5) Find a market where there’s said to be little room (4) In cricket, we start to change the side (5) Thanks to a dunderhead, this means little (3) Angry, he breaks a date! (6) Active in stirring up evil to a silly end (6)

False coin image (4) Hesitated to change, having dined out (8)

One way to be wise? (6)

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An Australian digger (6) A maker of hats, he accepts an order (6) Dispatch, say, about 50 (4) Young thug, bashful about bungled bosh (4,3) Ensnare the girl with the round bottom (5) Figure to open a shop at the flat (5)

Where frigates and brigantines 9 12 13 15

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Fix the telly? (3) Obviously a unit of area (3) Fabric, it won’t be denied (5) Shouts “Yes!” accepting fifty quid (5)

A Sheffield girl (5) Haunt of thieves in Mildenhall? (3)

She sounds fey (3)

Low fellows in the field of American sport (7)

Got together with me and the head (3)

Taste sour, outwardly? (6) Water of average density (4) A stunning display? (6) Not much of a smoke? (5) Flirt like everybody in extremes of depravity (5) 28 A bit of a twitch, somehow (3)

Covers possibly slid into position (4) 30