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Exploitative outsider – rug buyer? (12)
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O compound (5)
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Questions and beer event (3,4)
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Stick (4)
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Gloomy (8)
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Sports doctor? (6)
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(Turned) sour (6)
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Resident of small house (8)
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Bollinger, say (4)
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Indiscretion (4,3)
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Cloth with woven, sloping lines (5)
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Freedom to do as one wishes (5,7)
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Aptitude (7)
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Leap (anag.) (4)
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Barking leader? (3,3)
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Of oaks and elms etc (8)
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Stern (reply?) (5)
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Attention-grabbing activity (6-6)
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Polynesian musical? (5,7)
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NY (3,5)
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Irish knees-up with storytelling (7)
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Prickly plant (6)
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More faithful (5)
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Knock senseless (4)