The Herald crosswords
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African republic destroyed regalia (7)
Front of building not what it appears to be? (6)
Boat requires skill (5) Dog-end Edward cut short (9) I'm receiving treatment for being restless (9)
Journey to the east is rubbish (5)
13 Clean air out there (5)
15 Means of protection in case urn breaks (9)
Learner one castigates but lets go (9)
Part of the seventeenth occasion (5)
Dog's run into wheel I conclude (5)
Incredulous of dodgy Celtic spa (9)
Theatre worker curiously hasn't aged (9)
Open a new page (5)
Get one's goat a weed (6) Abandons the trenches (7) 1 5
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Attribute to a writer (7) Understand note is on top of file (5)
This goes up and down and round and round (7) St Michael's beaten up old metal worker (9)
Original tree on street (5) Ship's mat? (7)
Daughter leads union in time-wasting action (9)
Stick notice in this place (6) Sleep for a long time in the brae, strangely (9)
Deferred use charged externally (9)
Copper embraced by missing stripper (6)
Clothes appearing from exotic minaret (7)
Passage in former bit of land (7)
Bank staff who give away secrets? (7)
Turn taps with energy and create a flood (5)
Train or bus (5)
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Stop smoking, eg (4,3,5) Pour fat or juices over (meat) (5)
Attacking footballer (7)
Diagonal line across the weave of a fabric (4) Epitomised (8)
Crucial moments (6) Sides of a hill (6) Thought things through (8)
Chanticleer (4)
More drunk (7)
Minor slip (5)
Place where troops assemble (6,6)
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Skewered meat which can be doner or shish (5) Central American country (5,4)
One of a series of ranked layers (4)
Written assignments (6) Gun that fires by compression (3,5) 6 7 12 13 14 16
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Vex (3)
Skilled professions (6) Spontaneously (9)
Sweet, hot, milky pudding (8) Grading units for gold (6) England's first Hanoverian monarch (6)
Work (dough) (5)
Discredit (4)
Garden vegetable (3)