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Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 29 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Shellfish extract (6)

Publican with no end of trade (6)

Late, but if on time, not late (4)

Pacific islanders cash crop? (10)

Sound sort of artist (6)

Woman's habit is to delay; that is the end of it (8)

What makes drips feel so pleased with their achievements? (4-5)

Expresses disapproval of alcohol, say (4)

Impudent type (4)

Cuts off credit to Chinese food raiser (9)

Sleeping partner maybe has scope to finish on board (8)

Believe one wouldn't say no to this (6)

Gets agreed damages set aside (10)

Side winds? (4)

Badly rusted piece of cleaning equipment (6)

Put on weight and looked older (6)

Wind resulting from unsettled weather (7)

Help an upstanding girl (5)

It may be caught and cooked in a pot (7)

Summing up a cleric in middle age (6)

Dismissed from the Jockey Club? (6,3)

Fruit is when rain's about (7)

One is not openly menaced by them (6,7)

Well-rounded notes in an unbeatable score (4,5)

One-sided support for literature (4,3)

Applause is praise in the orchestra section (7)

Frolicked about, showing scarlet undergarment (7)

Collide with end of bridge? A bad one might (6)

Sound as a bell (5)

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