Across
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Subjects such as History, English, Classics on ice regrettably (6,8)
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Primarily Islamic republic, Azerbaijan's neighbour? (4)
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'80s ballad that's ornate was fast enthralling one (6,4)
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C. European city, in retrospect, used to be chilly (6)
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Oddly, loner awash, swimming with toothy mammals (8)
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Great Dane cavorting in genteel eatery (3,6)
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Scoffs wines, spirits etc loudly (4)
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Pint? Regularly bleary, Everyman's beginning to tuck in (4)
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Beautiful princess with roly-poly dessert: very excited! (7,2)
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Ale container, a large piece of brass (4,4)
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Somewhere in France, piece of offal's acerbic (6)
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Good old pancakes, finally disappeared inside cookers: frightful apparitions (10)
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Extravagant praise for dance party (4)
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Sees bronco told off on the wagon (5-4,5)
Down
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Arise in plane, perhaps (7)
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Ice creams consumed by deaconess (5)
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A nation with naval strength, we're told: it's in the mains (2,5)
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The queen to cross parting water (that is, lake), finding dog (8,7)
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The writer had 50 hesitant expressions: they won't work (6)
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Cold spot, Norway: the European's replaced by another (5,4)
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Being somewhat high-minded, I blessed foodstuffs (7)
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It's used for pumping reggae with sun out (6,3)
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Corroborate order to get some distance from Paddington? (4,3)
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Lectures caught by young women (7)
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Show half of mum's brothers having left (7)
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You should see Papa before seeing this city! (6)
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Abandon in brushwood (5)