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1. The ____ tube connects the middle ear to the pharynx
2. See 27A
3. ____'s "The man who . . .” cartoons featured overreactions to minor social gaffes
4. Section of the Metropolitan Police
5. Player of the upper part in a piano duet
6. Fish imported into the UK during the Second World War
7. A railway across Australia's ____ Plain has the world's longest stretch of straight track
8. Hydrocarbon gas used in welding
9. Small green grandmaster of the Jedi Order
10. Anthony ____ was the UK's prime minister during the Suez crisis
11. Tourist attraction where you may see a representation of Guy Fawkes or 14A
12. An American name for a travelling rug
13. The answers to the eight 6A clues in this puzzle are examples of ____
14. In physics, a reflecting or refracting surface free from spherical aberration
15. Expression meaning "comes into view”
16. Hungarian prime minister Imre ____ was deposed by a Soviet military invasion in 1956
17. One of Islam's "pillars” (spelling with a doubled consonant)
18. Variations from standard pitch in jazz
19. If someone ____ something, they devour it enthusiastically
20. In grammar, to match in inflectional form
21. Dudley Moore's Little Miss Britten skit parodied the voice of Peter ____
22. Something causing (possibly overstated) disgust
23. To depart in a hurry
24. Indian food
25. People making false claims about their lives and achievements
26. Old English letter now replaced by the last two letters of its name
27. To be taken over by an emotion or indication of it, such as laughter
28. ____ played surgeon Frederick Treves in The Elephant Man
29. Combs and saws have them
30. Member of a biological clade including birds, reptiles and mammals, named after a membrane surrounding the foetus
31. 1970s Sunday night TV series about a shipping company
32. "All the ____ people, where do they all come from?” (Eleanor Rigby lyrics)
33. George Town is the capital of the ____ Islands
34. This is a clue
35. Left hastily and/or furtively
36. The "helicopter seed” of trees in the Fraxinus genus
37. A ____ king or queen may use 27A
38. An admiral's aide-de-camp
39. These have risers and treads
40. US state bordering Virginia and Tennessee
41. Words from which later words are derived
42. A US name for some bedside furniture
43. You may see this in a bun
44. State of inactivity or equilibrium
45. Code inserted into software to set off a malicious function in specific circumstances
46. A keyboard instrument
47. A coffeehouse's server of coffee
48. The densest naturally occurring element
49. Biased or below the belt
50. Pseudo-archaic verb, meaning "know”
51. Elite regiment's foolish talk
52. Plant shows vitality — another plant is dying
53. Like mites, being a worry outside home
54. Release the writer's found at riverside
55. Severe state control is met with difficulty by Greek character
56. Prisoner is old thief — time to be released
57. Having particular shrubs with a certain glow — hard to miss
58. Scottish stories with particular ending
59. Python coils and man dies, OK?
60. See nicest deb excited by words of approval on coming out?
61. Ace singer screeches (not half!) when making comeback
62. Oil on tin removed
63. Poisonous plant I found by river
64. Move or don't move in periods of prosperity?
65. Poison from old chemical company conveyed by sailors
66. Old plant possibly beginning to droop in stone behind house
67. There's no cost in refixing part of window-frame?
68. Last bit of luggage — the blue container for drinks
69. Ancient dish that is blue everyone's collected
70. Laziness of a French company — hero must be brought in
71. Unruly fans trashed Corsican city
72. Place with abbey having no time to start with for novice
73. Name for son secured and toughened
74. Bother with rubbish, say, piling up
75. Seasonal mob's reconciled — words of respect suggesting kissing of hands
76. Tourist restricted, not the first or last to be upset
77. Too keen to eat something not good, like grass
78. Lifesavers — not wimpish chaps, we hear?
79. Is nude shivering? It's right to go inside to be covered
80. Seaman requires American river anchorage, avoiding delta
81. Ethical abroad? Not acting ambassador
82. Bird to make bird noise having hatched fifty eggs
83. This Devonian idiot
84. Hard bits of ski-run, with one coming adrift sadly
85. What's the matter with head? In charge minimally
86. Bird's set task
87. Opposite, contrary; in ____ iter equi concitati, Livy 1.28
88. Villages I conquered
89. I bore, brought forth and produced
90. Channel or conduit; naves per ____Panamensem in Oceanum Pacificum veniunt
91. Of a woman who brings up and instructs
92. Wars (for poets, anyhow), or a double weight
93. To get a giraffe, mix 23ac with this (abl. sing.) — vide Horace Epistles 2.1.195
94. They'll shut up and close
95. They heard, or you are heard (both forms syncopated)
96. Elbows, or arms more generally
97. One born from (masc. voc. sing.), vide Aen. 6.125, ____ sanguine divum
98. Bagheera, or one of the big cats Caelius nags Cicero about, Ad Fam. 8.9
99. I spend or pass; a mani ad noctem usque in foro ____ diem, Plautus Most. 534
100. To sell, to flog off