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1 Dismantled jet car to see

safety feature (7,4)

7 Sick pet carried by donkey – a

high-tech mode of transport (7)

11 Cut limbs off politician

after insult (9)

12 Fool limps badly, taking

back message (9)

13 Wrap whisky in riding gear (7)

14 Physician high on ecstasy:

“It grows on trees!” (5)

15 Jerks who are from US? (5)

16 Vote for keynote lecture

to be trimmed (5)

18 Occasion when Bond

hugs his boss (4)

20 Aircraft makes air go

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out turbulently (8)

23 Social media company captures

hydrogen and neon gas (7)

25 Chinese leader right to retire

and travel (4)

26 Bond parking next to

narrow space (6)

29 Physicist’s cat decapitated after

gene partially blocked (6)

30 Split tree turned over

with time (4)

31 Foolish to cross Skye,

perhaps to deceive (7)

34 Peeress and winged creature

spotted insect (8)

36 Fussy about opening (4)

37 Anti-authority figure born

to appear in part of film (5)

40 Actor involved in sex

trafficking (5)

42 From the beginning, good

lighting engineers allowed

moon to shine (5)

44 Medicine laureate initially

fascinated by heartless rodent (7)

46 Executive officer and craft

captured by alien in

faraway world (9)

47 One giving directions

incorrectly due to pigs (9)

48 Request main course without

finishing all the starters (7)

49 Wearable gadget has vessels

chasing unknown fish (1-3,7)

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