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Clue: Caught wild tiger at edge of jungle - it can be dangerousAnno: C (tiger at)* e Def - it can be dangerous
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Clue: Worry about police officer approaching railway employee for nicotine roll(9)Anno: Definition: Nicotine roll. Anno: (C(IG)ARE)(TTE). Worry - Care. Police officer - IG. Railway employee - TTE. About - Containment indicator.
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Clue: Joint etc. rolled up, inhaling air, get high (9)Anno: C(IGARET*)TE< Def: Joint, Rolled up - Reversal indicator, High - Anagram indicator
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Clue: Quote covers renovation of great joint (9)Anno: Cite around anagram of great. Definition = joint
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Clue: Fag end of big title race disrupted after student drops out (9)Anno: Definition: Fag; "end of biG"=G; [G TITLE RACE] "disrupted" (anagrind) "after student (L) drops out" = [G+TITE+RACE]* = CIGARETTE
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Clue: North gone for good in unusually nice treat for a smoker!Anno: Anagram of NICE TREAT but with North (N) 'gone for' good (G)
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Clue: One of a Group of Twenty, perhaps, give credit to revolutionary Greta's interrupting! (9)Anno: CI(GARET*)TE; [give credit to] = CITE; [revolutionary Greta] = GARET*; ['s interrupting] = container indicator; surface references the G20 (where Greta Thunberg might protest) and the standard size of a pack of cigarettes
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Clue: Mention about fish touching alien's butt(9)Anno: Mention is cite/ about is container indicator/fish is gar/ alien is et/ butt is definition
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Clue: Tragically eat tiger (cold)? It's an abomination! (9)Anno: Anagram indicator: TRAGICALLY, Fodder: eat tiger c. Definition: It's an abomination.
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Clue: Smoke big descaled fish in this, Provençal style (9)Anno: [b]I[g]+GAR in CETTE, French for “this”
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Clue: Joint Chiefs (of course including General Allvin) report exclusively to the executive (9)Anno: Acrostic, indicated by “chiefs of”; def.: “joint”. Surface refers to US military advisors; General David W. Allvin is Chief of Staff of the US Air Force
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Clue: Criminal I target in church is one among a pack of killers (9)Anno: ITARGET* in CE; def = one among a pack of killers
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Clue: Spooner's fix? A place for a smokeAnno: Spoonerism of "Rig (fix) a set (place)" Def on the right
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Clue: Spooner says "Fix a group something unhealthy" (9)Anno: "Rig a set" spoonerism, def = something unhealthy
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Clue: This is often tipped, but not by medical professionals!Anno: Self-explanatory CD
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Clue: Dazzling E-car GT, I note, emits no smoke (9)Anno: E-car GT : Electric car Grand Tourer, Dazzling : Anagrind, Emits : del ind, Smoke (Definition) : (ECAR + GT + I)* + (NOTE - NO)
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Clue: Tragic! French and English invention is a potential killer (9)Anno: [TRAGIC + ET (and in French) + E (English)]* indicated by invention. Def. A potential killer
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Clue: Drawing on this could be teratogenic (9)Anno: &lit comp. anag.*ON CIGARETTE = TERATOGENIC. For the surface drawing on = inhaling, for the cryptic drawing = eviscerating. Teratogenic means harmful to a fetus.
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Clue: Setter tragically loses the right to hold back his butt(9)Anno: sETTER AGICally (loses right, RT missing) read back within
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Clue: Get article about giving up ultimately harmful product causing cancer (9)Anno: (GET ARTICLE)* - L; about= anag ind, giving up= deletion ind, ultimately harmful= L (last letter selection), def= product causing cancer.
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Clue: Get care! It could be a Health hazard!Anno: (Get care it)*
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Clue: Starts to ignite gathered tinder, creates mostly swirling smoke (9)Anno: (I G T CREATE)*. Swirling is anagrind. Definition: smoke
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Clue: Roll it and eventually die...tragic (9)Anno: Anagram of (IT E TRAGIC), roll is anagram ind, whole clue is def
