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I'm having trouble parsing 1 Across:

Smooth musician's 'Stranger on the Shore'? Certainly not (9)

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I'm assuming it's SANDPAPER (from the verb form of "smooth"), but I can't make sense of the...
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Johnson on fatherhood: "It's a healthy option to some extent" (3-3) N?N?A?...
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I've found this particularly tricksy today, as some of the answers (including all of these) contain words that have to be represented in the grid by symbols, so I can't give the usual letters and...
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Bogtrotter
Have completed the body of the puzzle, just need to fill in the letters round the edge. I thought it might start "As if the Labour party have got to show . . ." but there's no f in the list of letters...
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As is often the case with my LOI, I can't see how the clue works: Upset on sea, wretched mostly - so it is! (3,2,3) ?A?/?E/M?R It's obviously MAL DE MER from the definition "Upset on sea", but I can't...
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I'm having trouble placing anything in the grids - I've got quite a few of the answers, but I've hit a wall, in that there's 2 12-letter answers, both of which I've solved, but which appear to not...
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So with today's Guardian Prize, I've got the theme and 10 of its associated partially unclued answers, and all but 16 of the others, but I don't understand the instruction about the solution to...
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Wool supplier hiding blemish books clothing course (9) ?E?M?R?E? I have NEWMARKET ("course" is the definition), but I can't see the construction at all....
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degreen2014
Darned. 7 Letters 1 Word [?o?g?n?] Thank You...
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Wolfram9
Some pretty poxy clues in the xword this week peoples, but we managed to finish it :)
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davey b
Sinners supposedly recollecting dead man in prayer A?A?/O?D/?V?
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Classic music genre rejected by Roosevelt briefly (3, 4) ?H?/O?K? I have THE OAKS (racing classic), but I can't see the construction at all....
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24 down 10, doctor operated to save skin on thigh (4, 6) ???P/?????T 24D is MARK and 10 is LEFT I have DEEP THROAT (anagram of OPERATED and TH, the "skin" of THIGH), but I can't see how it fits the...
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I've got one I can't parse and one I can't get at all: Precipitation from a Jersey sewer (4,4) A?I?/?AIN - I've got ACID RAIN but I can't construct it and Scores but Roman is frightened (4,6)...
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One I can't get: Chocolate producer from a hundred with a gong in 23 (5, 5) ?A?A?/?E?N? 23 is TINTIN...
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Paul's done it to me again. I've got all the answers but there's one I can't parse: Builder's coat put on, hold buttons up (8). C?A?D?N? I have CLADDING, but I can't quite see why....
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I've got to the last clue in the Guardian Prize and I can't parse the obvious answer. Gap garment a third off - Over nine grand! (7) ?P?C?N? I have SPACING but I'm baffled as to why....
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As is so often the case, I've finished the Guardian Prize (#28,356), but I can't parse 1D: Diet of mostly odd junk? (4,4) _A_T _O_D I have FAST FOOD - can someone explain it?...
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I've finished the grid, but there's a couple of clues I can't fully parse: 12A Help out, or fail to help children's author (2, 4, 3) DO ONES BIT - I can see that "children's author" = NESBIT, but I...
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Spanishfly
I'm totally stumped here. To get foot in, what's 14? "The capital of Lebanon, twice bombed, returned to former glory (7) "...

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