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Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 26 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Financial restriction on the Mafia covering the Old Lady in the morning (3-3)

Leave covering for creature on the lake (8)

Sound start to 23, a 24 for 22 23 (6,8)

See 9 (8)

With competent direction, singing about hell by one in employment can bring good out of evil (1,8,2,8)

Head girl comes to tea (7)

Don't start another meal without striking - it's rude (7)

Golding's the author capable of prophesy? (4-7)

Bird with broken wing loves dodging hungry predators (8,6)

See 22 (6)

See 11 (8)

One follows backbones (6)

Undermine plan that's raised grass (6)

Fool, keeping up badly, massages tummy pain (10)

Half play a note for love? (8)

Bad fit for French gentleman: cast him out! (8)

Libel - mud being thrown, by gum! (8)

One of many reported, you idiot! (4)

Chief under the influence (4)

Concentration camping on the loch (10)

Plant genetically modified on September the fourth in transport (8)

Hair wrapped round poems from the old country (8)

Game, the first in the "Rising Sun", finished behind the arras (8)

Painter, soldier and engineer (6)

Reminder of p-punishment (4)

Holy place where painters go for 'oney? (4)

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