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Cryptic Crossword: February 2002

14 across and 2 down are associated with 1 across. Five clues are without definition parts; each leads to a word which can be linked to 1 across to form a phrase. The five phrases are all in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.

Across

See preamble (4)
Copper and lead Dora ordered (8)
Oxford's capital new clear source of advice (6)
Records a tennis match? (7)
12 Number during month re-elected (5)
13 Insect, seen by woman, retracted feeler (7)
14 See preamble (5)
17 Resident in convent no people heard (3)
18 Hurtful piece taken from newspaper (7)
20 Tile one found outside front of house (7)
21 Hairy articles spy gets back after end of contract with publisher (7)
23 Briefly, admitting nothing (7)
24 Bird in science museum (3)
25 A quietly concealed garden pest (5)
27 Former partner accompanying substantial model (7)
29 Employees dealing with correspondence, omitting secret sign (5)
32 Occasion marked by many parties - were any rearranged? (3,4)
34 Inept, I damaged ornamental item (6)
35 Pal mixed something to drink (8)
36 Jealous feeling expressed by messenger deprived of love (4)

Down

Lowest point beneath lake (5)
See preamble (10,3)
Crew's leader has distributed money (4)
Long timber (4)
Fuel starts to operate in lamp (3)
Adhesive stuff obtained from store's incredible (5)
Unusual vocation, as found in Canadian province (4,6)
10 Oscar-winning actor appearing in clubs (5)
11 Devious logic in astute motion (13)
12 Taste displayed in most of dance (4)
15 At home, received a quantity of gold? (5)
16 Eye new net curiously - and say, finally, very little (5-5)
19 Region of low pressure? Not right (5)
22 Brown tint one's seen in copies picked up (5)
23 Signals, or hints, left out (4)
26 Jury bound to rise around end of session (5)
28 Chrysalis nearly empty possibly? (5)
30 Device for controlling what falls from clouds, reportedly (4)
31 Man in love, rich (4)
33 Intelligence? Website's beginning to be associated with it (3)

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