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Second politician takes Washington twice, ousting Republican free-rider (8)Across
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Second politician takes Washington twice, ousting Republican free-rider (8)
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Ostentatious knight spurns ornamentation (6)
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He doesn't take part in less-fancy hijinks (5)
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Leaders step down in Britain and suffer for extremely long span (5-4)
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Jack goes and gets wasted, downing last of gin (3,3)
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Youth detention centre's staff are essentially cut off? (7)
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Segregate rotting chocolate that was last bought in spring (6,3)
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Acting like a parrot with a short, high-pitched sound (5)
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To marry me takes a little work? (5)
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Sub introduces 500 books by American historian of old (9)
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Hot pan overturned with a lot of that flammable oil (7)
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Plenty of dogs but no leader of pack (6)
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Magic words in poetry she composed (3,6)
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Love shown with bleak bouquet (5)
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Students make a mistake in recess (6)
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Cultivated yellow dye to clothe oddball earl (4-4)
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Splinter group's MO overlooking central part of counterintelligence (4)
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Tyrant's circle prospers after revolt (9)
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Bitter about king interrupting subsidy (5)
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The dagger also forged in battle (2,11)
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Manifesto's conclusion overwritten by article in postscript later (9)
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Chemically unreactive isomer of nitre? (5)
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Sweet soldier employed by army watchmaker (10)
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Desert monster finally slain in daredevil's anthem (2,3,2,2,4)
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Spirit clinging to shaking, mannish hand (10)
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Sort of roll created to yield lists of registered! (9)
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Focused on stopping extreme parts of terrible Heinz restructuring (2,3,4)
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Loss covered up in unusually sloppy military initiative (5)
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Farcical revolution supporting dictator at first (5)
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Retracted insult about setter's latest crossword, perhaps (4)
Nuclear Option