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• A touch below par, ultimately in fierce competition (3,4)
• Tedious talk about border plant (8)
• Team bragged (4)
• 27 shift across this, oddly (6) *
• Salad ingredient artist portrayed by plate (6)
• Slanderous comment in manly speech (11)
• Player's agent blowing top (5)
• Said of country life, past not present (4) *
• Repaired sitar crack with such great skill (8) *
• One being broadcast in factory, English fat cat? (11)
• Read duties involved nursing duke (7)
• Perhaps Russian girl's goal abroad (4)
• One may have used rifle criminally? (5) *
• Heavenly in Somerset — here also (8)
• Have a share in it per capita in resort (11)
• Gain attention towards end of discussion (4)
• Down payment is raised inside store (7)
• Censor text of radical decree (6)
• Alpha male held in very serious respect (6) *
• Busy Asian river — tours I suspect (11)
• A short time in that place's playhouse (7)
• Batting order for cricket, say (6)
• Urge pool model to put this in a book at the start (8) *
• Very popular game at school and in the garden (3,3,6) *
• Those calming things down for 23 down and 20 down at school *
• The old man grasps air in record numbers (3,5) *
• Settle one consumed by big exams with note (8) *
• Searched for bugs welcoming a foreign head of spies enjoying a hot spot (3,5) *
• State spy found in Mayo with urchin *
• Recommend run to impresario (8) *
• Sample on the radio of Law and Order (5) *
• Saucy type upsets bowler in taking second wicket (6) *
• Release without any charge in blocks around square? That's priceless! (3,2,4) *
• Reacts to bad jokes by playing organs (6) *
• On the phone to sweetheart in Kerry with writer's block? *
• Pouring oil on troubled waters is the job of 14 across *
• Issues upsetting leaders of North of Ireland tourism divides Ulster, for one (8) *
• Individual accommodated in my conversion is finding resistance from one of those exchanging notes for the coppers *
• Necromancer dismisses con men with runner at the track (5) *
• Inadequate single in New Order's last anthology (8) *
• Look up English Royal in The Guardian (6)
• In accord with reggae in medley (8)
• Horseplay perhaps after drink leads to game of pool? *
• Don't leave unescorted from stable (6) *
• Closing the surveillance outlet is a news item (5) *
• Criminal to silence those deciding who'll get into office (9) *
• Applause for trick is absurd (8) *
• A sad feeling coming off the summit with title-holder (5) *
• A real open question for highflyer (9) *
• Would Stranglers perform hits with such an instrument? (8) *