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Davis, record as a mime performs (2,1,6,3)
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Horizontales
  1. 1A
    Davis, record as a mime performs (2,1,6,3)
  2. 7A
    Eye O’Reilly better beginnings (3)
  3. 8A
    Joe and the Zeppelin leads – what a cracker! (4)
  4. 9A
    Confused French dog is an apt descriptor for some of these clues! (5) (sorry, not sorry)
  5. 11A
    Royal house without peer is a card (3)
  6. 12A
    Studio shortly where beauty starts (1,1)
  7. 15A
    Expletive ocean sound failure (1,4)
  8. 17A
    A big kiss with model for bend is the way (4)
  9. 18A
    Vessels take it out of chastity and shake it up (6)
  10. 21A
    Middle of a NY strip for dinner (3)
  11. 23A
    Endless gags in Britain (1,1)
  12. 24A
    Doctor Aaron PhD shares recently departed tenorist (7,7) (with 26A)
  13. 26A
    See 24A
  14. 28A
    Arsenic or Anglo Saxon
  15. 29A
    Foul Mark without a date glides over snow (3)
  16. 30A
    He said hello to his little friend and took too much cocaine but didn’t have a note and was in short supply (6)
  17. 32A
    Ketamine worker for thinking Immanuel (4)
  18. 33A
    Back of a painting is a messed up place to get oils (5)
  19. 35A
    West half a year (2)
  20. 37A
    Pornography and prostitution without five cubes (3)
  21. 39A
    So ... bug out ... is ... totally not cool? (5)
  22. 41A
    Los Angeles wildlife park arranged without a duck to make a movie based on a Twitter thread (4)
  23. 42A
    Was politically correct then dropped Ecstasy and used to cook Chinese (3)
  24. 43A
    Godiva stinks terribly and is Fry’s replacement (5,7)
Verticales
  1. 1D
    Uncertain pop, though very loud rather than Governor General (4)
  2. 2D
    Grab shaky chants (6)
  3. 3D
    Good as hell flautist spilled some oil and caught some Zs (5)
  4. 4D
    Ban “qi” in Scrabble for religious garb (5)
  5. 5D
    Place to drink when it’s cold, dark and stormy (yet shirtless) (6)
  6. 6D
    The follow-up to 1A (with the misogynist language removed) could also be 21A (or a kiwi’s greeting as it’s heard) (4)
  7. 7D
    Sandra starts off happy (2)
  8. 10D
    Flava’s ex-partner is Ralph and a poor grade (5,1)
  9. 13D
    The formation is a stringed instrument with one inserted (5)
  10. 14D
    Yoga shoes reveal a deep cut (4)
  11. 16D
    Subject: Ms. T – ah, incorrect! (5)
  12. 19D
    Larry David’s beloved is a boneless gibe (4)
  13. 20D
    In Lesbos, Cate reveals a pair (that’s what one hears) (4)
  14. 22D
    You must pick one in a fight (I’ve put a few of these types of comments in parenthesis) (5)
  15. 24D
    Mrs. Slocombe’s ward is an eccentric US spy (5)
  16. 25D
    Itching Gina Rinehart without hate in is agitated (6)
  17. 27D
    Smallest and most wretched is 15A replacing circumference with radius (4)
  18. 31D
    Tesla competitor does in-out (6)
  19. 32D
    Zen Buddhist story and lash with ends removed result in misnomic bears (6)
  20. 33D
    River dinghy houses composer (5)
  21. 34D
    Channing part takes the aforementioned flautist and changes loser for lead role (5)
  22. 36D
    Deep black celeb onion heart (4)
  23. 38D
    Root a bird (4)
  24. 40D
    Fine, cooked in the middle (1,1)
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