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• Hotel to show former president embracing reading? One may go into shock ... (9)
• Defraud a character shipwrecked in novel for seafood (6)
• Independent parliamentarian to back hospital department without effect (8)
• Possibly be artful as a novelist (8)
• First section of novel copper initially labelled as rather peculiar (10)
• Instrument with which old boy regularly trimmed novel (4)
• Salacious dancing leaving us out? That's not very friendly (7) *
• Perhaps King is rejected; likewise, the odd bits of Pullman novel (7) *
• Old-fashioned books about university (3)
• Star sign giving protection to a shrewish woman (6)
• Person who’s tested an explosive device in river (8)
• Consistency of old Tyneside head (7)
• Player on stage removing agent’s head (5) *
• Hateful mother with capacity to conceal name (8)
• Horse initially noted at Goodwood (3)
• Back company in engaging American relative (6,6)
• Moderated bad temper displayed in commercial (6)
• Excessive tax? Not to Eire, surprisingly (12)
• Regrets accepting Liberal regulations (5)
• Miserable with regard to grassy area, so to speak (7) *
• Infamous head of occupied port seized by other people? (9)
• Martial art expert in town in Japan (5)
• Misguidedly ask Hector for a biscuit (9)
• Kid taken to court by police at last (5)
• Workman excited over pieta (9)
• Drive carelessly, running front of taxi into foreman (9) *
• Edges of double bed cut down to size (6)
• Thus one African country identifies an inhabitant of another (6) *
• Bring up easily portable car part (4,5)
• Bouquet made from cloth in European country (9)
• Take in tenants every so often (3)
• Creature putting leg under twice (5)
• General claims as support for property transaction (9)
• Pathetic type’s small circle including a couple of daughters (5)
• Device locating companion in part of New England (7) *
• Message lovely and short in the end (5)
• Redeeming quality in old batsman after keeper's job? (6,5)
• Moving a lot, I'm one on the move! (9)
• Egyptian god, determined (3)
• United team is in the driving seat, reportedly (5)
• Kind of door finished twice? (2-3-4) *
• Fracture that's the same! (4)
• Marry and make a splash? (4,3,6)
• Contrary to opinion, week appears, ultimately, a long time (5)
• Game played with associated board, cheat and get low grade (8)
• Wood terribly dry, then a water supplier on the way (4,7)
• Native American people almost as tribal, oddly, in European country (7)
• Party in minutes ending in government — probable landslide? (2,7)
• Animal seen moving around Pacific native (10)
• Witness watching over, perhaps? (6) *