A yearning for hope initially (5)

About ready to flip, if ditched in canal (9)

One who survives embracing political party that bombed (9)

Crazy but well (5)

Brit absorbing ‘hard worker’ spirit (7)

Lover, once having pried, turned and ran out (7)

Nation elected to get back funds (5)

Shiner causes squint oddly (3)

Sexual declaration used in poems? (5)

State calls for end of free vote petition (7)

Say one’s left deposit, in full (7)

Maybe squash plant variant? (5)

Hot tar’s forced into near empty navigational aid (5,4)

Bear on a Piano by surreal painter (9)

X’s house arrest finally overturned (5)

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Single-stemmed plant’s quality improved (8,4)

Question one: What might be said to end a ride? (4)

Habitually fit some plastic to retain temperature (8)

Nice way to support nut production? Wrong (6)

Christian making Satan a bit peeved at first (10)

Imitate Spanish artist capturing Republican revolutionary leader (6)

Fine plant for skin (4)

Old writer holding lives in balance (5)

Car, jet brazenly parked on politician’s path! (10)

On a regular basis, a diver may be heard (5)

Particle, negative, orbiting form of inert uranium (8)

Nautical remit: ‘Aim to swim!’ (8)

Concert part for theatre assistant (6)

Said dessert’s a week’s portion (6)

Row of bugs turned over (4)

Malicious stuff, the crap about a ‘jumped-up’ Brit band member (4,4)

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