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Across
| 1 | | An example of excellence to
preserve in Oscar Wilde's play (2,5,7) |
| 9 | | Does up wrongly, being fake (6) |
| 12 | | Returning American swot brought on
old film star with much information (12) |
| 13 | | Acted as solicitor, getting bill
priced up (8) |
| 14 | | Overlooking ancient capital, man
observed pagans (8) |
| 15 | | Item can't be cleaned? I don't
believe it! (4,4,4) |
| 16 | | The overseer could well be of more
wan appearance (9) |
| 17 | | Foolish to keep mum, having a
particular way with words? (11) |
| 20 | | A tradesman who has nothing new to
offer (7,6) |
| 22 | | Do better upriver for fish (7) |
| 24 | | Fidelity, for example, within
marriage (10) |
| 25 | | Plain relation of a fairy tale (4,6) |
| 27 | | Holds up progress of some Muslim
pedestrians (7) |
| 29 | | Pro-con? (3,3,7) |
| 31 | | Arch-priest's organised examination (5-6) |
| 32 | | Harangues a bride - it's awful (9) |
| 35 | | Claims and dependants make
progress difficult (12) |
| 37 | | Laughs when Ginger's swinging on the pole (8) |
| 38 | | Plant that is one in a hundred (8) |
| 39 | | Leaving port, as in a famous play (7,5) |
| 40 | | I need a change from Virgil (6) |
| 41 | | Order to sailor to exercise,
aiming to improve with this? (6,8) |
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Down
| 2 | | Such a wimp gets repeated refusal
embracing the woman (3=4) |
| 3 | | How some tennis strokes may be
played in the future? (4-3-4) |
| 4 | | With which a private investigator
goes to work? (2,3,2,8) |
| 5 | | Exalted status of one on a rostrum (4,8) |
| 6 | | Boasts about heavy footwear (6) |
| 7 | | Dread sex manual translated from
French author (9,5) |
| 8 | | Useless person is an insensitive
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driver perhaps (8)
| 9 | | Bill's back in the enclosure, the nut! (5) |
| 10 | | Once, where list was amended (9) |
| 11 | | People getting down to work in the
main (4-3,6) |
| 18 | | Book a journey that ends up in the
subcontinent (1,7,2,5) |
| 19 | | I'm Eve, a cool, rich corrupter of singers (4,5,5) |
| 21 | | More inelegant, after a fashion,
sporting a Busy Lizzie (4-2-7) |
| 23 | | Rubber could produce a fortune
with this! (8,4) |
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| 26 | | Boasts oddly about not feeling
well if one's shifted by a blow (7,4) |
| 28 | | Central passage in letter about
quite ridiculous protocol (9) |
| 30 | | Agent provocateur thrown out of
Italy, headless (8) |
| 33 | | Republic, mainly pleasant and
aiming at peace (7) |
| 34 | | Is back in Paris, and then is back
there again? Fly's the answer (6) |
| 36 | | Spring tide, from the sound of it (5) |
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