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EMIRATESWhat Sex Pistols were paid for 3 months in Holloway venue AMBULANTMoving about in the morning, six-footer clutches bauble, oddly (8) OKSOWHAT"And your point is?" DATELINEIt says where and when an article was written (8) HOWSLIFE"What's new with you?" SPITBALL"Ammunition" for a class clown CAVALIEROffhand GENERALSClasses by extremely lugubrious commanders (8) GRIMACESMakes a face (8) WARFARINDrug no good when engaging in battle (8) INSECRETSurreptitiously deleting note would not be cricket? Actually it would (2,6) REPRISALEarl rips pants in retaliatory act (8) EARLIESTSoonest SAYONARAJapanese farewell