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  1. Resume again with leading performer on Tuesday (7)
  2. Qualified for island retreat after international award (7)
  3. Some small Amazonian animal (5)
  4. The passing of a bill in French by a court leads to workers going to Thailand (9)
  5. Brevity shown by the first Irish head (9)
  6. Plant in south facing border (5)
  7. Famous Elizabethan artist follows Dutch king to Spain (5)
  8. Stubborn old boy finally puts money on Austria the outsiders! (9)
  9. Cheap seats for Branagh’s West End ‘Lear’ about revolutionary society (9)
  10. Signifies wealth (5)
  11. Impatiently expectant each girl stands before the queen (5)
  12. Carnage as Dicky urges halt (9)
  13. Issue string to worker at one side of the cricket field (9)
  14. Bill catches Rex in quick dash (5)
  15. Mistrust of the Head of Security leads to American exercises on the borders of Connecticut (7)
  16. Split in the German fishing boat (7)
  1. Told of grass encircling city square (7)
  2. Where ups and downs are expected? (9)
  3. Informed of a conflict with Elizabeth (5)
  4. For that reason free other bats (9)
  5. Style shown by Chanel’s top girl (5)
  6. This metal container has arsenic and sulphur and I’m carrying uranium (9)
  7. Money for food (5)
  8. Last European to cross three in Italy before me (7)
  9. Severely criticise former CO then deploy IRA on the outskirts of Tralee (9)
  10. Supported us instead anyway (9)
  11. Out of consideration I object to books in a place where people live (9)
  12. A group of insects eats half a horse! (3,4)
  13. Hit king with a drumstick perhaps (7)
  14. King George to fool with marijuana (5)
  15. Move quickly in a woman’s dress! (5)
  16. Hunchbacks born in a Mongolian desert (5)


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