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Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 33 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Occasionally, cell buddies escape (5)

Meet nurse to consider medical TV show (9)

Understand queen's wearing crown lined with fine fabric (9)

In rehab I treated addiction (5)

Simple crash involving vehicles blocking bridge (7)

Tools cutting right into driers (7)

Lobby in favour of fencing Yorkshire's border (5)

Excellent soldier leaves coat (3)

Fanta's first, then open Sprite (5)

Runs with crazy idea, using rap sheets principally to identify looters (7)

Frightful person drinking vermouth before five brought back dizziness (7)

Stayed in middle of Colditz with English officer (5)

Long-lasting stain finally covered by rug — it's coloured (9)

Put together project, securing vote with an attitude (9)

Start chess, ultimately, with pawn (5)

Intense as, say, Jack Palance's debut (4)

Q & A about uniform on railway creates a dilemma (8)

Jazz age was best, conclusively, for enthusiasm (4)

Woman visiting South American country with Mike every year (3,5)

Tolerate mushroom in a cassoulet on vacation (6)

Put Up, Up and Away under film, raising tempo initially, and cause a violent reaction (4,3,3)

Attempt French for the firm (6)

Summons determination, making good whiskey (4)

Less risky returning in the role of whistle-blower after retirement (5)

Rotten liar's awful driving (10)

Military unit capturing last of enemy with zero authority (3-2)

Made merry, when Eddy's almost taken in by rogue (8)

TV and papers ousting leader of party before fight (5,3)

Cool chopper that could help to get one up a mountain (3,3)

Field men to support cult (6)

What the tabloids call Boris Johnson when Germany replaces British combat training site (4)

Failed in audition for film (4)

Drug that's acceptable in church? (4)

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