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| 1 | POSSUM | Sent Ted away with money to get a marsupial (6) |
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| 4 | APPLET | A program from computer giant, leader in tablets (6) |
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| APPLE T, Clue numbering corrected |
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| 9 | BALE | Evil Christian celebrity? (4) |
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| DD or 3D, Ref to. Christian Bale |
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| Imagine Christian Bale as Batman giving a baleful look to Dr Evil from Austin Powers |
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| 10 | MEMBERSHIP | Parliamentarian aboard vessel gets a pass (10) |
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| 11 | STUPOR | Pus and rot causes coma (6) |
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| 12 | RETRIEVE | Rescue tailless dog (8) |
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| 13 | CEASELESS | There is no end to lower vision reportedly (9) |
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| ~SEES LESS |
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| 15 | AULD | Old Scottish St. Paul died from within (4) |
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| Remembered Auld Lang Syne |
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| 16 | BUSY | Fully occupied vehicle on final journey (4) |
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| 17 | SHELTERED | Girl let revolutionary communist be protected (9) |
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| SHE LET* RED |
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| 21 | ACHILLES | Greek character, sick at heart, yearns for…. (8) |
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| ACHES around ILL |
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| 22 | NUMBER | … doctor with mysterious rune to be less sensitive (6) |
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| (MB+RUNE)* or MB in RUNE* |
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| 24 | BRAINSTORM | Think about book on meteorological phenomenon (10) |
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| B RAINSTORM |
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| 25 | CHIP | Flaw that's used while gambling (4) |
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| 26 | MONODY | Poem on Odysseus has verses lamenting a person's death (6) |
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| 27 | INJURE | Habituate abducted judge to harm (6) |
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| INURE around J |
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| Judge's obiter dicta has spawned SMSs like "I got married yesterday",
"So what? I got married twice yesterday to the same girl", responded
by a third chap with "I committed bigamy yesterday" |
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| 1 | PIASTRE | Currency of pirates at sea (7) |
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| 2 | SLEEP | Skins pulled back for kip (5) |
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| 3 | UNMORAL | Somehow mourn for criminal having no ethics (7) |
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| MOURN* AL, our old crook is fairly popular |
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| 5 | PRESTO | Poster designed quickly (6) |
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| 6 | LASSITUDE | Shuffle suits and deal without energy (9) |
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| 7 | THIEVED | Oddly after first king was ousted, she entered and stole (7) |
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| THI(-r+EVE)D, Oddly after first refers to 'third' |
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| 8 | X MARKS THE SPOT | At the exact location, carefully makes sixth port throwing one out (1, 5, 3, 4) |
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| (MAKES SiXTH PORT)*
Reminded me of the huge X in the Church in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |
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| 14 | SUSPICION | Doubt heartless ultras taking half the cipher back into a Bombay suburb (9) |
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| SION around US and CIP< |
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| 16 | BUCKRAM | Linen made from animals (7) |
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| 18 | LINEMAN | A straight worker? (7) |
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Remember the heydays of the electricity and telephone linemen of yore ? |
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| 19 | EREMITE | "Queen of England has power" said the recluse (7) |
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| 20 | CLOSED | Daughter took out shirt from cabinet that was shut (6) |
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| CLOSE(-t+D), t for T shirt |
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| 23 | MACAU | In China, leading marketing agencies campaign against unemployment (5) |
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| | Reminded me of Naresh Fernandes's "Obsessive search for the elusive
humerus of St Francis Xavier". I could not locate it on the net. But you
can find it in Jerry Pinto's book - Reflected in Water
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