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1ACCWC#555 - FREEBIES

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1 Clue: Accountant leaves damaged briefcase containing electronic gifts(8)
Anno: Definition: Gifts. Anno: (BRIEF(-CA)SE*) around (E). Accountant - CA. Electronic - E. Damaged - Anagrind. Leaves - Deletion indicator. Containing - Insertion indicator.

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2 Clue: On and off farmer eh? Blimey! So these cost you nothing?
Anno: Alternate letters [on and off] from F[a]R[m]E[r] E[h] B[l]I[m]E[y] S[o]. Def=these cost you nothing

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3 Clue: Engineer wearing briefs errantly featuring in hand-outs (8)
Anno: EE (electrical engineer) wearing BRIEFS* (errantly). FR[EE]BIES(*) Def: hand-outs.

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4 Clue: Insect turned up in chips? They’re on the house (8)
Anno: FR(EEB)IES: ‘chips’ = FRIES; ‘insect’ = BEE; ‘turned up’ indicates reversal (in a down clue). ‘They’re on the house’ = def.

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5 Clue: Spooner says cheese taxes for handouts
Anno: Spoonerism for brie (cheese) fees (taxes)

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6 Clue: Insect seen crawling back into chips - thankfully they cost nothing! (8)
Anno: reversed BEE in FRIES. I once got some chips in the depressing English town of Staines and an earwig crawled out of them, so this is almost a true story, but they actually cost a few quid

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7 Clue: Offerings of craft beer and fries! Right away! (8)
Anno: Def. Offerings (beer + fries)*-r, anagram indicator = craft, deletion indicator = away

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8 Clue: Reconstituted fries and beer endlessly doled out without any charge (8)
Anno: [FRIES+BEEr]*; anagrind: "reconstituted"; definition: "doled out without any charge”

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9 Clue: Sent back insect concealed by cooks in complimentary dishes?
Anno: DBE - complimentary dishes. Container of BEE (insect) reversed (sent back) inside (hidden by) FRIES (cooks)

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10 Clue: Queen, possibly when upset, tucks into chips and gravy? (8)
Anno: FR(BEE<)IES. Gravy as slang for complimentary perks, etc.

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11 Clue: Boy heading out sees fire blazing on the house (8)
Anno: (B (-S) EESFIRE)* ON THE HOUSE- DEF

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12 Clue: Prime drugs for Spooner’s backstage rider? (8) Spoonerised > Brief Es
Anno: A backstage rider essentially consists of freebies – Mariah Carey’s 20 white kittens, Iggy Pop’s seven dwarves, etc.

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13 Clue: Items on the house? Surprisingly, beer is essentially safest (8)
Anno: Anagram (surprisingly) of BEER IS sa(FE)st (essentially). Def.: Items on the house

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14 Clue: Those on the house sadly see fire consuming the top of building (8)
Anno: Def: Those on the house, anagrind: sadly, SEEFIRE* around B(uilding)

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15 Clue: Insect back in fries results in no charge for what is ordered, say
Anno: EEB (insect back) in FRIES; no charge for what is ordered, example of FREEBIES

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16 Clue: Graduate leaves infants without charge before getting handouts (8)
Anno: (BA)BIESFREE. Before : placement indicator. Definition: Handouts

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17 Clue: SEBI's giveaways (8)
Anno: REVERSE ANAGRAM SEBI*/ GIVEAWAYS IS THE DEF

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18 Clue: Handouts of books in every school, basically at no cost (7)
Anno: Charade B-ooks I-n E-very S-chool (basically, acrostic indicator ), FREE (no cost), at (position indicator), def = handouts

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19 Clue: Frank regulator tottering to get handouts
Anno: Handouts=freebies, Frank=free, regulator=sebi, tottering(sebi)*=(bies), (free)(bies), tottering=anagrind

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20 Clue: Benefiters, oddly, not missing bananas in donations
Anno: Anagram of BENEFITERS Minus NT (ODDLY NOT); MISSING as Del Ind; Anagrind BANANAS, Def DONATIONS

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21 Clue: Europeans in briefs, running riot - they won't get charged!
Anno: EE in BRIEFS* def is 'they won't get charged'

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22 Clue: Spooner's French cheese costs or is it a no-charge giveaway?
Anno: Spoonerism of BRIE (French cheese) and FEES (costs) - definition is no-charge giveaway

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23 Clue: Kinky topless wee briefs hold giveaways?
Anno: Kinky (anagram) of topless wee (ee), briefs; definition- giveaways

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24 Clue: Bottomless beer, fries, nuts, they're on the house [8]
Anno: #DownClue > Anagram of BEE FRIES * ; anagram indicator is nuts. Definition: they're on the house

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25 Clue: Insect turned up in chips given on the house
Anno: Def - on the house , FR(BEE<-)IES

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26 Clue: No charge for these beers if bartender essentially gets drunk (7)
Anno: Definition = no charge for these; anagram of BEERS+IF+E (bartEnder essentially)

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27 Clue: Pounding back beer, Rex left fries as giveaways (8)
Anno: Def.: ‘giveaways”. Container indicator: ’pounding’. Fodder construction: F + REEB + (-r)IES … [or] FR + (-r)EEB + IES

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28 Clue: Insect turned up in chips ? You don't have to pay for these (8)
Anno: BEE<< in FRIES (chips). Def: You don't have to pay for these

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29 Clue: Samples rum, fries and endless beer (8)
Anno: Samples (Definition) - (FRIES)(BEEr)*, rum - anagrind

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30 Clue: Take away fresh beer and fries along with some supermarket samples perhaps (8)
Anno: R - [Beer + fries]* . Take = R [Chambers]. Away = deletion ind. Fresh = anagrind. Along with = connector [Clue clinic]. Def by example = some supermarket samples perhaps.

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31 Clue: If drinking pints served up on Wednesday, from 5-6 only, they're on the house (8)
Anno: Down clue: If drinking pints = I(BEER)F, reversed (served up), on wednESday (letters 5-6 only); Def: they're on the house

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32 Clue: Presents electrical engineer in crumpled briefs (8)
Anno: Presents - Defn; EE inserted in (BRIEFS)*

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33 Clue: Gifts new Frisbee to entertain teens at centre (8)
Anno: FRISBEE* around (te)E(ns); new= anag ind, to entertain= cont ind, at centre= middle letter sel ind, def= gifts

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34 Clue: If drinking beer, go bottoms up; easy for regulars, they're on the house (8)
Anno: I(beer)f<<+e(a)s(y), def- they're on the house, down clue

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