In September sadly we lost 15 (two words) and 12/19. The former produced the 29 of the 4-winning ‘1A/18/39’ (six words in all) while the latter made a successful 33 of the same name. Ignore an apostrophe.
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9 Woman hates me bareheaded? (4)
11 Sow in-house pig-men finally devoured (10)
14 Love goddess lives with hot matelot (6)
16 Teddy keeps field cropped and ploughed no more (5)
17 Has a go at time off and relaxes (5)
20 Group of moles amid row of spots (7)
21 Least prim Essexite almost reformed (7)
23 Ornamental tray of silver and gold (7)
24 Sailor immerses uniform in Canadian waterfall (5)
25 Absolute love from Indian girl (5)
27 Make showy warrior put on 250 medals initially (7)
30 Soldiers being merry sing (7)
32 Stauncher lord straddles elephantine horse (7)
36 Spain relocated earnest aristos (5)
37 Watery rum rector got for farthing (5)
38 Put on Alcatraz maybe, often I slept sporadically (6)
40 Neurogenic twitching shown by cabinet in a corner (10)
41 Welshman’s battalion protecting railway (4)
42 Science debunked mythic process (13)
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