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• Informally, young women recruited for farm work during both world wars (4,5) *
• Weed in open ditch running into river (6) *
• The 1960s BBC comedy show The ____ popularised Miriam Karlin's slogan "Everybody out!” (3,5) *
• Period of detention brings strain to holy type (7) *
• Climbing vine with distinctive complex white and purple blooms (13) *
• Not real, deceptive (8)
• Description of bar Jock's eager to provide for car attachment (4,4) *
• In Spanish and Portuguese, a male friend (5) *
• Framework expanding a skirt, fashionable in the 1880s (6) *
• Aim to be quiet when anger spreads around (6) *
• An assault on a fortification, using ladders (8) *
• Traveller getting round — movement restored? (4) *
• The Paris Peace Accords signed in 1973 were an attempt to end this conflict (7,3) *
• Glasgow's empty grave being reported (4) *
• Ingots perhaps hard to get out, we hear? (5,3) *
• Town named after an East Anglian king slain by Vikings (4,2,7) *
• Poor performers cramping a political organisation (5) *
• Stromboli, a volcanic island, is the "Lighthouse of the ____” (13) *
• Some words needing to be cut, as before (4) *
• Instrument used to determine whether surfaces are horizontal, or vertical (6,5) *
• Prestige of court blown apart by a revolutionary (6) *
• Barring of pay increases by a government or company (4,6) *
• Crazy old army officer shown up (4) *
• Medium-sized African antelope which makes spectacular leaps to avoid predators (6) *
• Travellers' facilities at Watford Gap. Gordano, Chieveley or Clacket Lane (7,4) *
• Jittery trainee hates to take more chances early on (5,3,4) *
• Very needy (8) *
• Once like ABC (part of alphabet here)? (4) *
• A decision which is very easy to make (2,7) *
• Location of the Rijksmuseum and the Anne Frank House (9) *
• Confusion of small son, tot in a spin (4) *
• Type of boat also called a double outrigger (8) *
• Homeless, so tent there may provide the answer (2,3,6) *
• Hertfordshire town with TV and film studios, where Star Wars and Holby City have been shot (7) *
• Neck cord to which a security badge is often attached (7) *
• Number given to worker who may be temporary resident (6) *
• Michael Collins, Gus Grissom and Helen Sharman, for example (10) *
• Censure mother and children ultimately (4) *
• Daily commentator about London life during the 1660s (6,5) *
• Fish hangs loosely on end of line (5) *
• Pattern on window, maybe — what could be finer around church? (3,4) *
• Supposed content of a small terracotta trophy awarded to England cricket captain Ivo Bligh in 1883 (5) *
• Gradation of differences in Conservative policy (5) *
• A soccer player in his own half is always ____ (6) *
• Stored in pocket, a long optical device (6) *
• A principle based on experience rather than theory (4,2,5) *
• Minstrel in the Robin Hood stories (5-1-4) *
• Tree — prominent feature on isle, something slippery (10) *
• Salary boost (5)
• British prince (5) *