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Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 44 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Ruffians getting the Yanks out of breath?
Lofty accommodation
Given only lb4, I'd be angry!
To be the boss, you need dash!
See a bird as a criminal
New part of Los Angeles, where French is spoken
Going on foot, indeed comes to a sticky end!
State drama company?
Live somewhere posh?
He can order a chap to change gear
Badly missing
Be warm hearted and put up with things
Being worn, can it cause a skid?
What's the score?
Kind of drum needing attention?
Prophet's little house by the sea
Maybe scared about the piano getting scratched?
Seaman determined to get around
Something supportive for a sportsman
She makes a promising start with a nobleman
Such charges may be dropped
Hunts or looks around central Hackney
Scatter carelessly, it's true
The digger has a name for it
Have a fling?
Frown on goods starting to be inferior
Bill, the Dickens of a villain!
Grazing for a group of horses?
Vessel in which a nut gets cracked
How to surpass in competence
Indigent, being reduced in rank?
Has it a regular route around the interior?
Long to finish a story and get paid
Regard as a wraithlike spectre
She has complete confidence
Social conventions further south
Be judged and scolded
Source of bleats and whinnies
The usual, of course
Have they less than two husbands between them?
Comes close to Spithead?
They're falsely called choppers
Something to do with a straw
Go and reciprocate