2707: Get-together
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4 Each Chrome browser's opening changes online site for self-validation? (4,7)
12 No charge for these new dancing routines (9)
13 Goblin at last living in tree trunk (5)
14 Cover turned over, novel is Catch-22? (7)
15 Observe small branch (4)
16 A third of Americans put on weight – belly for some (4)
17 Internally, customer's right (4)
20 Taking time, sumptuous western showed triumphant joy (7)
21 Carpet fabric, mainly rush, packed into cube (7)
25 Last line of defence – boiler fixed (6)
30 Live start of match involving very good sweeper? (5)
32 Southern docks bringing in old military spies (6)
35 Mixture of perfume ingredients combined to net love (6)
38 Boss, lazy, missing first post (7)
40 Maybe still wearing stockings in care home (7)
43 Church blocks huge declarations in Scotland (4)
44 See you time and time again, always at the front (2-2)
45 Without antennae, nothing stops flying saucer (7)
47 School accepting odd boorish Aussie rugby player (5-4)
48 Tough trooper positioned around island infested with bugs (11)
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1 Dippy sort of office aid? (7)
3 Chief good on breaking total silence linked to wrong (6,5)
5 One weeping about that gutted US animal (7)
6 Having elevated land, hardened by cold when removing top (6)
8 Area, but off beaten track (7)
10 Do away with chatty flier superior group absorbs (9)
11 Rarely go back to wish otherwise, finally yielding to case for defence (7)
18 State bore put up in No. 10 (5)
19 Injurious nasty DJ peculiar about single (11)
22 Tobacco plant aril oddly contains mostly fluid (9)
27 D-Day target of May has finally gone (5)
29 Young lady indulged over blunder (7)
31 Objective means upright (7)
34 Judge provided very loud reprimands (4,3)
36 Exclusive bunch accepts Lothario but not her (6)
37 Happy over solver being welcomed by Jeeves after vacation (6)
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