There’s frequently something special about Brendan’s crosswords and this one is no exception: every clue’s construction is of the form where a single letter is included in another word to give the definition. Quite an achievement, especially considering the smooth surface readings and that when going through the clues initially this wasn’t obvious at all to me. (Apologies for the late post – I was under the mistaken impression that I was doing tomorrow instead.)

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*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, CD=cryptic def, DD=double def
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