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• Male hugs male sporting star
• The best player is a defender
• Excellent companion -- a politician and I will get on
• Bite — victor (abbr)
• Competitor who has defeated all others
• Ali, once
• Fellow bagging first of medals?
• Munch cold meat with pickle for starters
• Second winner
• Top-notch detective capturing hearts
• Fight for
• Title-holder takes tea with politician
• Advocate having hours reduced in plant
• Title holder, slangily
• Best solver embodying Holmes, initially