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• Criminally assists as wager is accepted (5)
• As desperate last resort, try to grab things to put into drink (5,2,6) *
• Shockingly, I retain passivity (7)
• Fine sprayer distributing blue rinse (9)
• Polish once more give a snub (6)
• Orchestra pits remodelled to be very high (13)
• Pharaoh has gold for teacher (5)
• Darling at university given a flower (7) *
• Agency worker has lots of time for painting technique (7)
• Women’s quarters are toured by His Majesty (5)
• Strewn nuts deter cats (9)
• Make secure, with roles reversed (5)
• Pen: handled the end (4-3)
• A month in charge of preventing infection (7)
• Irritability about book, a compendium (5)
• Never-ending struggle on athletics track? (7,6) *
• Seamy (6)
• Octave (anag) — wading bird (6) *
• Distinctive — normal (7)
• Muslim who fought against the Crusaders (7) *
• Small sour fruit used for making jam and jelly (4,5) *
• Islam's month of fasting (7) *
• Superficially impressive (5) *
• Pretentious (informal) (9) *
• Weak and ineffectual person (7) *
• Raised bumps for reading (7) *
• Chaste — valets (anag) (6) *
• Camping canvas (5) *
• Swoop (on) (6)
• Kind of Swiss clock? (6) *
• US state (with a creeper?) (8) *
• Property specialist — negate taste (anag) (6,5) *
• A selection made purely at random (5,3) *
• Burrowing shellfish (4) *
• Cook gently in liquid below boiling point (6) *
• American fraudster who ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, d. in prison 2021 (6) *
• Spend (time in prison) (5) *
• One who achieved a state of perfect enlightenment, d. c.483 BC (6) *
• Arks wrecked in the Channel (4) *
• By finishing supper (3) *
• Beast in a police car? (5)
• That of one in a position of dignity? (5)
• Move that junk! (6) *
• Current circulation (4) *
• Fishy shade of pink (6) *
• Of old barbarians, a French one at Southend? (3) *
• South African swimmer in Massachusetts (4,3) *
• Taxi bureau? (3) *
• Quantity of tin obtained in moulded form (5) *
• Fear that calls for a cool head after a nasty pain (5) *