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5a
Dog — call us jerks (anag) (4,7)
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7a
Hideous (4)
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8a
City where Torvill and Dean won gold in the 1984 Winter Olympics (8)
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9a
Attempts to convert base metals to gold (7)
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11a
Cerebral organ (5)
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13a
Oink (5)
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14a
A Highlander's fur or leather pouch (7)
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16a
Banquet activity (8)
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17a
Lash (4)
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18a
Coin expert (11)
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1d
Painful (4)
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2d
Galling (7)
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3d
Loan shark practice (5)
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4d
Court liar (8)
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5d
Vessel that returns blood from the head (7,4)
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6d
Plant of the buttercup family — am I novelist? (anag) (4-2-1-4)
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10d
Dishy — substantial (8)
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12d
Pithy remark (7)
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15d
Woozy (5)
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17d
Dam (4)
