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Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 41 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Something electrifyingly hairy?
Starting with fifty, he returned with nine
Legendary builder who redeveloped our slum
It's after 51 thousand that there are restrictions
By sheltering the sick, make a name
It's for water but contains oil
Soundly bred on plain food
Rested, then returned to an incomplete task
I avow it's a southern river!
May it form friendship
More than plentiful evidence of embroidery skill
A number happening to be in the fringes of society
Extra soft, with a bit of lustre
There's a 'water' kind (in the Euphrates?)
I had to back the Gunners to attack
Many wage adjustments mean trouble
Avoids reading things full of rubbish?
Extra terrestrials, as around the Nile, possibly
Certainly not the distaff
To tease us up is sweet!
Some rubbish about a safety device
A terrible fire at the end of the street involves repair
Lord socially acceptable in disorganised clan
Employer of a shifty ruse
Harlesden's youth centre?
At journey's end, see many looking off-colour
Like that Baconian theory, a bit unreliable
Speedy winner in a famous car
Prevents arrests?
Where wintry precipitation's almost done?
We hear it has charms
Annie's boy?
To a medical person, it means scope
You can do what you like with it
Of the emphatic type?
Evidently cereal repast
Old place name, rum as can be
As used in making pies around Christmas, initially?
In which a woman could give herself airs?
Busoni piece usually without conductor
A black suit