A first effort at building a nation

by Martyn Crosby

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A.   Beater lied, in a confused fashion, on purpose (10)

B.   Mother, newly interested in ornithology, hides a
sea eagle. (4)

C.   Nat reduced Army Pay Corps, shook well, for a short
sleep. (6)

D.   Handled, missing little hydrogen, twisted around,
disembarked. (6)

E.   "Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them (offices)
_________ in his conduct" (Thomas Jefferson) (1,10,6)

F.   Grab at a little university, confused, produce a
turnip.(8)

G.   Initial question in a taut upset finds a form of
artistic reproduction. (8)

H.   "Cheer up, _____________" (Philander Chase Johnson)
(3,5,2,3,2,4)

I.   Any inlet takes a new form, naturally (8)

J.   "Quinquireme of Nineveh, from distant ___________"
(Masefield) (5)

K.   Always the equal or greater, however (12)

L.   Doff a shortened New Hampshire crazily brusque (7)

M.   Hebrew F was an expression of disapproval from Lenny
Bruce`s Grandmother. (3)

N.   Question sounds like being member of Church vocal
team. (7)

O.   Pan hath stirred a cleaning fluid.(7)

P.   Dire cut, I, shaken, augment bladder throughput.(8)

Q.   Hell lost fifty, reformed Austrian village which
lent its name to a form of hydrous copper sulphate. (3)

R.   Masochistic recipe : " ___________ for leaven" (A.C.Swinburne)
(8,4,4)

S.   Lie upsets Samuel`s teacher, the High Priest (3)

T.   Do lend recomposed head (6)

U.  
Whatever made atheism hides permanent disappearance.(5)

V.   ET died, all upset, and revised a manuscript. (6)

W.   Where finer values prevail to dissimulate vital
network description (6)

X.   One third of a dance gets in front of a short
New Testament to sing monotonously (5)

Y.   Handel : Messiah conceals a tree (3)

Z.   Cartoon elephant, missing nothing, rendered speechless
(4)

AA.   Agglutinating factor in blood shortly goes most
of the way to providing a Greek R (2)

AB.   Shortly, poetically (4)

AC.   Wanders in a field of alfalfa, thereby hiding Catholic
Priest (6)

AD.   Dearth transformed a strand of cotton (6)