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1ACCWC#562 - DESPOT

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1 Clue: Leading figures in Dar es Salaam publicly opposed tyrannical dictator (6)
Anno: Acrostic ("leading figures in"); definition: "dictator"

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2 Clue: A tyrant gathered poets after beginning to dream (6)
Anno: Beginning to dream - D, anagram of (poets) - ESPOT, Def: a tyrant

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3 Clue: Editor withdraws post about tyrant (6)
Anno: ED rev + POST*; editor= ed, withdraws= rev ind, about= anag ind, def= tyrant

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4 Clue: Any renegade’s potentially a tyrant (6)
Anno: DES + POT hidden word indicated by ‘any’. Def: ‘a tyrant’. (‘Renegade’ meaning one rejecting lawful or conventional behavior.)

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5 Clue: Tyrant along with son trapped in store room (6)
Anno: S inside DEPOT

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6 Clue: Do pets strangely become one with absolute power? (6)
Anno: (Do pets)* indicated by strangely. “become” link verb meaning “turn into / equate to”. “one with absolute power” definition = DESPOT. [My cat certainly thinks so]

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7 Clue: Strongman’s son breaks storehouse(6)
Anno: Definition: Strongman. Anno: (DE(S)POT). Storehouse – Depot. Son – S. Breaks – Insertion indicator

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8 Clue: Mark backing extremely despicable oppressor (6)
Anno: Oppressor is def/ Mark is spot/ backing is juxtaposition indicator/ extremely despicable is DE

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9 Clue: Say Trump posted falsely (6)
Anno: Def: Say Trump; falsely - anind, posted - anagram fodder

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10 Clue: Boss in warehouse taking a little smoke-break (6)
Anno: Boss is the definition (Chambers Thesaurus). Warehouse taking a little smoke-break = DE(S)POT. Disclaimer: smoking is injurious to health.

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11 Clue: Tyrant stopped in rebellion, stripped of power (6)
Anno: Tyrant: definition. (STOPPED-P)*. In rebellion: anagrind.

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12 Clue: Tyrant posted abroad
Anno: Posted* with abroad as anagram indicator

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13 Clue: Trades half-off cookware item for superior one with an iron grip (6)
Anno: Def: superior one with an iron grip; (Tra)des half-off = DES; cookware item = POT

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14 Clue: Adolf Hitler say, stopped moving after losing power
Anno: Anagram (suggested by moving) of stopped minus p

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15 Clue: Stop seditious infiltrator backing an autocrat (6)
Anno: Hidden backwards (infiltrator backing)

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16 Clue: Tyrant of French locality (6)
Anno: Tyrant = Defn, of French = de; locality = spot

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17 Clue: Desperate, short, essentially heartless tyrant (6)
Anno: Tyrant (Defn) - (DESPO)(hearTless), Despo - Slang/short for desperate, essentially - middle letter

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18 Clue: Dictator resolves to stop seditious, revolutionary content (6)
Anno: Reverse telescopic; def = dictator; sTOP SEDitious <<; content - hidden word indicator, revolutionary - reversal indicator

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19 Clue: Leaders of Denmark expectedly support prosecution of terrible autocrat (6)
Anno: Definition: Autocrat Wordplay: Acrostic of "Denmark.....terrible" with leaders as the acrostic indicator

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20 Clue: Posed differently model became control freak
Anno: Definition=control freak(despot), differently=anagrind, (posed)* model(t)

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21 Clue: Say Putin, stop seducing nurses! Revolting!
Anno: Hidden word in “sTOP, SEDucing” (indicator: nurses (vb.)), reversed (“revolting”). Def by example (“say”). All standard indicators.

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22 Clue: Donald Trump initially a receptacle for hopes - dashed from the second he proved himself this?
Anno: D T (Donald Trump, initially) holding ("a receptacle for") (*OPES) (dashed = anagrind, from the second = not including the first letter). Semi-&lit.

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23 Clue: Extremely desperate position of someone like Hitler (6)
Anno: DE end ltrs of desperate SPOT postion. Def: (by example) someone like Hitler

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24 Clue: Possibly Catherine the Great rides Potemkin from three until eight (6)
Anno: Letters 3–8 of “riDES POTemkin”. DBE: “Possibly Catherine the Great” (Empress Catherine II of Russia, known as an ‘enlightened despot’, whose advisor Grigory Potemkin was also her lover)

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25 Clue: Tyrant died close to sewers after consuming Ecstasy and cannabis (6)
Anno: Definition: Tyrant. Wordplay: (D S consuming E) and POT.

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26 Clue: Arsenal’s taking on Spurs’ last terrible manager?(6)
Anno: DE(S)POT = terrible manager? Terrible = inspiring fear, terror, awe (Chambers)

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27 Clue: Model posed nervously before a tyrant (6)
Anno: Def: a tyrant; Model: T, Posed nervously: DESPO*, before: position indicator

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28 Clue: Tyrant spotted heartless, agitated (6)
Anno: Definition: Tyrant Anagrind : agitated. Spotted heartless is SPOTED. Anagram of SPOTED is DESPOT.

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29 Clue: Dictator exercising supreme power over territory, primarily (6)
Anno: Acrostic &lit

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