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• Caught beyond fielding position (5)
• Novelist introducing last letters from Fanny Brawne in Time Out (4-3)
• Ground patrols round a country (8)
• What help one get a grip resolving perils (6)
• Where Queen may entertain government or set up Order of Merit (9)
• Give a long involved story (4)
• Letter of thanks after getting shown the way up (5)
• Crufts regularly allowed meat on the bone (6)
• Conservative shock with chap meeting leader (8)
• Son has sexy photograph (4)
• Safeguard two companies working (6)
• Former print media, say (7)
• Just book early for a change (6)
• Share out a fee for passage on the way back (5)
• Walk street and go from side to side (6)
• What’s in creel? Very small fish (5)
• Your setter has a completely confident step (7)
• A taxi passenger’s last to be dropped some way away (4)
• Spot calcium used in cosmetic cream (8)
• Left gold for respected poet (8)
• Writing on the wall round gents (4)
• Theatre operative attaching end of arm to leg (9) *
• Tart and custard isn’t desirable in courses — just starters (6)
• Extensive notes showing how much policemen are indebted? (7) *
• Finish getting runs in place for batsman (6)
• A niqab is said to be useful (5)
• Fabric cut: it is seen in a soft glow (6)
• One line crossed by old farmers, tough old birds (7)
• Isn’t an awfully short time? It is (7) *
• Sport’s over: fits horribly and dies (6,2)
• Solid surface, one on a nut (9)
• Author prepared to admit claim to be of high standard? (7,7) *
• Employer turned up yours truly’s CV (6)
• Carry out a couple of poles to plant in piece of land (8) *
• Ground where reptile doesn’t keep quiet (7) *
• In American city, possesses capital (5)
• Prosperity supplies a barrier to restrict disease (9)
• Engine’s temperature fell all round (5)
• People following rich individual coming in today, moving fast (3,2,9) *
• Maid watchful when old bachelor goes missing (7) *
• Team of lawyers in literary county (6) *
• Hotels cover the earth profusely (2,7)
• Say, a call in court is rejected by union instruction (8) *
• Stomach feeble returning musical phrase (7)
• Complain pathetically about idiot revelry (7)
• Cold store for wine with a hidden compartment (5)
• Mercenary ruing he’d fired (5,3)
• Against coins not using English metal? Sort of (8) *
• Risk a car crash, when two metals collide? (3,2) *
• Part of body shape swollen by organ (7)