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The clues here are given in alphabetical order. You need to fit them into the grid jigsaw-style. The easiest way to handle this style of cryptic crossword is to try to fit the long solutions into the grid. This will provide you with useful intersecting letters.

Rotten Montevideo bean that has already been referred to (5-9)

Dance jacket (6)

Korean monetary unit getting an irrational quantity returned for a type of red seaweed (8)

To annoy with clamour about drink left in a mound (7)

Hapless legate is a juvenile high flier (6)

Bungle, losing head and gaining force in a state of confused intoxication (6)

Great relative but very thin from hunger (5)

Footwear, classy and accepted, within an hour leads to persistent dull pain (8)

Marking – cutting the first third – the best bit of the cake? (5)

Disembowelled girl found in midsummer month in an equatorial forest (6)

Greek letter, reportedly in Japanese syllabic writing not accepted in Persian writing case (8)

A member of the audience – in other words, no role OK for him (6-2)

Go soft on cloth (6)

Old game incorporating witchcraft and upper-class element (7)

Australia commonly has Scottish one and beginnings of nasty affliction, a fetid discharge (6)

Capital bird (7)

Grade of goodness to fulfil a requirement – not loud but long (7)

Animal, turning up and getting a kick in the middle started again (8)

Small crude shelter has timid little worker in it (6)

Achieve without account and, getting a little time, knock off (6)

International Organisation press release on old clergyman has not been ascertained as truth (8)

Bloodsucker without anger gets royal seductress (6)

Rubber footwear somehow will not be got on (10,4)

Kiss with an odd ardour in an imaginary, idyllic place (6)

Unproductive Scots taking one in with hesitation, one who does produce (7)

Backward little hotel enveloped by enthusiasm for a religious man (7).

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