CRYPTIC CLUES

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The point of waiting for transport (3,4)

Annual check-up provided with emblem (5)

Send some more mittens (5)

Cancel Cinders production (7)

Powder in hospital, casualty (4)

Music maker at wild eco proms? (8) Mischief-maker returns standard onion (11) Demon permitted what was inferred (8) Fast-moving competitor taking top off shrub (4) Rice with ma’s bait, cooked (7)

Catcall from short woman, I suspect (5) Standing up before the court (5)

Be prepared for reserve (5,2)

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Scold when a beret is torn (6)

Part of Burkina Faso – Mali – another African country! (7)

Where art seen in Bogota, terrific (4) Famous people are pointless, I fancy (13) Simplest novel badly written? (8)

Double issue (5)

Iron rod raised over a hat (6)

Partisan reformed by candidate (8) Plantation for fruit or vegetable (7)

Agile doctor in river (6) Feeling sleepy, so some of the play’s wordiness is reversed (6)

Sheriff’s men leave hot milk drink unfinished (5) Woman among them, mainly (4)

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