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Criminal activity in bar: detective shot (8) Criminal court locking up bishop over street stall (8) Criticise cricketer's innings (5) Cyril garbled words of a song (5) Caught nameless ex-jailor making sudden withdrawal (4,6) Circular, small sandwiches (6) City in central Germany Clay layer beneath 80% of planet (7) Close to arrest after balls shown in public Coach has one period cut short in Canadian game Cockpit appliance supplier Coming together to raise standard Conspiring with someone, criminal Cain shot enviously at heart (2.7) Creature in a state before noon taken away (3) Cry of exasperation (Anagram of HAG) Celtic language Common contraction Calendar page Cornered Curtain holders Can tops Cove in film next to lake Curiosity has no function on ship Character set with kind expression Corroded Crackled (paper) Contempt Calculation that might include calculus, for short Casualty of a 1917 revolution Cold war aggressions? 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Corn kin Clockwork part Cooler suffix “Clear for takeoff” Cooperstown’s “Master Melvin” Cheers from the sidelines Cry on spotting another vessel Champion's one in operating 'gear' on the ground (6) Cross those left inside borders of Germany (6) Champagne bottle stopper Clumsy sort (word hidden in "loaf") ___-Carlton (hotel chain) "Casino Royale" author Fleming Capital of Georgia, for short Candy cane flavor that may remind you of the holidays Calligraphers' choices Cul-de-___ (blind alley) Christmas tree type with a scent that may remind you of the holidays Christmas beverage with a scent that may remind you of the holidays Centuries and centuries Comic book punch sound ___ card (phone chip): Abbr. Calm down (7) Claim of being elsewhere at the time of a crime (5) Come face to face with Copper overcoming posh person - that's the limit! 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Coppola film referencing Heart of Darkness (10,3) Coral or rock shoal or bank Corriperes, opponeres Country neighbouring Argentina (5) Course for intl students (3) Crack in great rock perhaps (7) Cur, seen to be trained with criticism (7) Current Serie A champions (6) Custom-built Channel so nearly consumes naval hero (6) Clamour to include lively tune in collection of one hundred Co-ordinate muscles like so when rising (8) Collie or poodle Comic actor who starred in 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (3,6) Common carton phrase Copies of mushy peas Countertop style Cover vehicle taking turn with goods (4-5) Cracker served with seconds, finished eating meal at last (6) Craig's boss in 'Skyfall' Chimed Compare Caps with pom-poms Clever Claim against property Confrontation Change for a five Clasp loose on the Spanish knife Conservator takes drunken actor round old city Coxswain Convinced Ceremony Characters hiding in patch in the shade (4) Charles Ryder's companion, Lord Flyte, in Brideshead Revisited (9) Cheers policeman arresting European pond life (8) Civic