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1 2 A mine rediscovered in a Welsh strait (5)

Girl to do wrong with, in a deluge (5)

Is such a coat dressy? (5) Intend to go first class to Maidenhead (3)

Got together again for just so long (5)

He’s a bit freakish in his wild way (7)

Powerless to revise the rent for one (5)

A traffic stopper in the road around central Harlesden (3) Pictures, I see, from the sciences (6)

The same again, and not so much of it! (7) Plunder from Waterloo terminus (4)

What a chap might call an expensive woman (4) Smothered with water? (7) Stiffeners for bald-headed people (6)

Highball! (3)

One’s personal space (5) Cause of rash effects in bed? (7)

Very formal but not Blimpish (5)

Arboreal monarch (3) Traditionally the fare for an identical triplet? (5) Exhorted the rude to reform and be good hearted (5) Adorns parts of vessels (5)

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Blare loudly at a politician (5) Such cakes are black but not 4 5 6

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19 burnt (7)

Regarded as rich after one short day (4)

A fair touring around, note, covers a lot of ground! (6)

I, a Frenchman, get the girl (5)

Success at twenty? (5) What the poilu has to put on his hair (3)

Average sized Scandinavian fruits? (7) Fireplace salesman? (3) What the last man did? (5) Majestically, they could have been stars (5) Frowned when a beastly female entered the vehicle (7)