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1ACCWC#567 - CLARITY

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1 Clue: Typical rebranding requires PR change to provide transparency (7)
Anno: TYPICAL* (anagrind: rebranding) must change P to R to provide CLARITY (def: transparency)

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2 Clue: Fixed trial in vacant city for transparency
Anno: Trial* in CitY

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3 Clue: Lucidity in article edited without energy? Yes!
Anno: Anagram (suggested by edited) of ARTICLE - E, followed by Y (Yes)

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4 Clue: Edited racy lit for explicitness (7)
Anno: (RACY LIT)*; anagrind “edited”; def. “explicitness”

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5 Clue: Left for husband, something greater than Hope Diamond's quality (7)
Anno: def: Diamond's quality (along with cut, color, carat, etc, the "5 C's"). In the Bible, of "faith, hope and charity", "the greatest of these" is the latter (aka love). CHARITY needs to be amended L->H ("left" for "husband").

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6 Clue: Criminality cleared surrounding mishandled trial, but yielded conviction (7)
Anno: CY (CriminalitY cleared) outside (surrounding) anagram of trial (suggestion mishandled); defn- conviction. The wordplay suggests a trial that cleared the accused of the charge, but still got convicted.

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7 Clue: Town incorporates Recommended Allowable Limit primarity about visibility (7)
Anno: Def: Visibility; Town = City; Recommended Allowable Limit primarily is RAL, about is reversal indicator making it LAR; incorporates is insertion indicator

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8 Clue: Flawless , perhaps ?
Anno: Definition by example. Flawless is a type of clarity used in diamonds grading

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9 Clue: Transparency of Lycra failing to hide Ironwoman’s front bottom in event (7)
Anno: LYCRA* hiding/containing I+T

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10 Clue: Simplicity of Lycra - it's elastic (7)
Anno: (LYCRA IT)*; elastic is anag ind, def is simplicity

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11 Clue: City storing liquid argon results in transparency (7)
Anno: Storing (container indicator), liquid argon (L + Ar, L in chemistry means liquid and Ar is the chemical symbol for argon), results in (link word between definition and wordplay) --> C(LAR)ITY--> CLARITY-->meaning transparency

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12 Clue: Charity hospital makes way for Centre of Legislative Transparency (7)
Anno: C(-h+L)ARITY i.e. H (hospital) makes way for L (centre of legisLative); definition: transparency

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13 Clue: Simplicity of trial organized in the outskirts of Calgary (7)
Anno: TRIAL* inside C (-ALGAR) Y

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14 Clue: Bits of rock in terrain obstructing soil transparency (7)
Anno: Def: transparency; Bits of Rock In Terrain: RIT, obstructing: insertion indicator, soil: CLAY => CLA(RIT)Y

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15 Clue: Explicitness rocked trial in case of celebrity (7)
Anno: Def. Explicitness, trial* in C(-elebrit)Y, anag. ind.:rocked, insertion ind.: in, first and last letter sel. ind.: case of

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16 Clue: Simplicity and kindness make Henry likeable, for starters (7)
Anno: [L instead of H in Charity]. Kindness = charity. Make = instruction to change. Henry = H. Likeable for starters = L. Def = Simplicity

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17 Clue: Republican in LA City agitating for transparency (7)
Anno: Anagram of LA CITY containing R from Republican. “Agitating” is the anagrind and “transparency” is the definition. Who doesn’t like transparency in government?

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18 Clue: City overwhelmed by the French Royal's lucidity (7)
Anno: The French LA + R Royal in CITY. Def: LUCIDITY

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19 Clue: Racy lit thrown out for explicitness
Anno: (RACYLIT)* [anag:thrown out]. Def = explicitness. [For the surface reading, lit=literature.]

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20 Clue: Beginnings of comprehension - lucid and rational - in true transparency at last?
Anno: Acrostic: Comprehension Lucid And Rational In True + transparencY (&lit)

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21 Clue: Clearness of crooked trail within city limits (7)
Anno: Clearness=Defn; crooked trail => (TRAIL)*; city limits => CY; within = containment indicator. Therefore, C(TRAIL*)Y

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22 Clue: Endowment loses hood for light to get brightness
Anno: Brightness=clarity (def.), (charity-h+l)

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23 Clue: Definition of a flawless surface seen in grid-based stuff of hardest kind? (7)
Anno: Cryptic Definition, diamond is hardest natural mineral with crystal lattice grid, clarity is a defining quality measuring flawlessness of surface

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24 Clue: Heads of local army regiments take up residence in Cambridge, perhaps to obtain enlightenment (7)
Anno: Wordplay: acrostic, insertion, DBE. C(LAR)ITY. Def: enlightenment.

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25 Clue: Improperly crystallised, mostly results in less transparency (7)
Anno: CA clue: Less+clarity = crystallise*. Improperly: anind. Definition: Transparency

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26 Clue: The French king dividing Paris, perhaps for transparency (7)
Anno: LA (French definite article) + R (Rex, “king”) inserted into CITY (“Paris, perhaps”), indicated by “dividing”; Def.: Transparency.

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27 Clue: Revised article with easy readability (7)
Anno: Anagram with substitution. def = readability; revised (anagrind) ARTICLE*; with EasY - substitution of E by Y.

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28 Clue: A lyric composed about the leader of Tanzania's simplicity (7)
Anno: Definition: Simplicity. Anno: (A+LYRIC*) around (T). A lyric - Fodder. The leader of Tanzania - T. Composed - Anagrind. About - Containment indicator

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29 Clue: One going through directions in metropolis for better understanding (7)
Anno: A (one) going through L & R (directions) in CITY (metropolis). Def = better understanding

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30 Clue: Drunk, she goes from hysterical rambling to lucidity
Anno: SHE* deleted from HYSTERICAL* def is lucidity

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31 Clue: Mud with topless grit can give easy understanding.
Anno: Mud is clay. Topless grit. Rit. Clay with rit . Clarity=easy understanding.

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32 Clue: Love originally assigned secondary position in philanthropy's definition (7)
Anno: The letter L (Love originally) assigned secondary position in CHARITY (philanthropy) gives ('s = is) solution CLARITY from definition 'definition'.

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