A nice easy puzzle to start the week, and the year with.  Rufus’s trademark cryptic and double definitions, anagrams, and clever surfaces are here, and some possibly nautical references also.  Thanks Rufus.  And to those who insist on a diet of only tortuous crosswords and nothing less, I’m afraid you will be (or already are) disappointed.  Definitions are underlined in the clues.  Each of the 2 sets of pictures at the bottom has got an unidentified link with the crossword.

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*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, CD=cryptic def, DD=double def, sp=spoonerism
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It took me a little while to get into Beale’s style of clue, but once I got used to it, things went quickly.
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