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Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 24 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Brought an end to a venture to prevent further losses (6,2,5)

Biblical high priest (3)

Gun dog (9)

Asian country, originally the Arabic Serendib or Serendip (3,5)

---- Cantona, Manchester Utd favourite of the 1990s (4)

Thickset (6)

Genre of slow-tempo Latin music associated with Spain and Cuba (6)

Make a mental or written reminder (4)

Wholesale slaughter (8)

Tiny airer? (anagram) (9)

Blemish (3)

Tenaciously, with great determination (4,4,5)

Ancient war game whose name may have derived for the Persian for 'king' (5)

Grossly exaggerated or over-emphasised something (4,2,2,5)

Allocates; reserves (8)

New recruits (6)

<i>Bon mot</i><span> </span> (4)

In writing, it may open up a quotation (8,5)

Hot Saharan wind blowing into the Mediterranean (7)

Out of true (4-4)

Timepiece read by the shadow a gnomon casts (7)

50th state of the USA (6)

Badger's burrow (5)

Alban ----, composer of the incomplete opera 'Lulu' (1935) (4)

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