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• A children's novel and TV series about a girl who lives in a residential care home (3,5,2,5,6) *
• Peregrin ____ is one of the first members of Frodo's group in The Lord of the Rings (4) *
• "Sainsbury's apologises for ____ faux pas in Cornwall” (Times headline in 2021) (8) *
• What a relief when taking Pakistan's last wicket (4) *
• The 1309-76 period when popes lived in Avignon is sometimes called the "____ of the Papacy” (10,9) *
• A column with symbols and figures, usually near a Pacific coast (9) *
• A decisive gun-fight or part of a sporting contest (8) *
• X's predecessor and in another sense successor chirping (8) *
• ____ appeared in early episodes of The Goon Show and later made a puppet-based children's TV series (7,7) *
• Beatles song with the line "Ah, look at all the lonely people” (7,5) *
• The only survivor of the Pequod's sinking in Moby Dick (7) *
• Parasites perhaps put nothing back into Dawn's Society (8) *
• "Too often the Ukrainian issue is ____ as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West.” (Henry Kissinger) (5) *
• In 1992, Leicester Polytechnic became ____ University (10) *
• Before about 1920, an underground chamber or insulated building, possibly in the grounds of a stately home (8) *
• London's ___ Gardens (3) *
• Quaker in the woods (9) *
• Like some clouds and kittens (6) *
• Quaint double contraction (6) *
• Language suffix (3)
• Imaginative car Lily redesigned (7) *
• Chaney of horror (3)
• Let borrow (4)
• Jointly (8)
• Grab hold of (6) *
• Fruit, soft and fleshy (5)
• First person in jazz making three-note chord (5) *
• Irish MP engages a particular firm (5) *
• Clothes line in Hornsea maybe (4) *
• A confusingly named dark fruit paste (6,6) *
• Organisation which gave Vladimir Putin an ID pass in 1985 (5) *
• Aircraft control surface combining the functions of two better-known control surfaces (6) *
• A name taken from Greek myth for someone who prefers pleasure and luxury to practical matters (5-5) *
• This German island was British territory from 1807 to 1890 (10) *
• Confer on, grant (6) *
• Species of spider (5,5) *
• I'm off to grab one item of headgear (5) *
• In an anxious state (5) *
• Minor dramatic role (4-2) *
• Adage, dictum (5)
• Break a law (10) *
• Rummikub piece (4)
• Mammal that chews the cud (8)
• Writer for American leader on trial (6)
• He planned reconstruction entirely on wetlands (8) *
• Female unit on a camouflaged jet (8)
• Final items of work eaten by dogs (10) *
• Plane, for one rolling in money (4)
• British PM once almost crushed in war zone (12) *
• Time to avoid pithy language (4)