The Guardian - Quiptic crossword No 846 - Feb 1 2016

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Bang up to date, but turned up in Bath HOTTUB
Blocks Britain's one quest, irrationally BRIQUETS
Deductions for bus con artist crashed SUBTRACTIONS
Dismiss rugby team members due to lack of funds CUTBACKS
Energetic move: four get the point ACTIVE
English male's Byronic twist at the very beginning EMBRYONIC
Extraordinary ardour nun showed for the chase RUNAROUND
Foolish crook sells cue CLUELESS
Funding a lift perhaps results in petty criticism FAULTFINDING
Homer's enchantress kept pupil in orbit CIRCLE
I am after unusually brittle operatic books LIBRETTI
Induction split: possibly rot set in at the launch INTRODUCTION
International standard for players' performance on the sports field CONCERTPITCH
Lie over, for example, in Belgian city LIEGE
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Motor to part of England, in Essex at first ENGINE
New peacekeepers employed UNUSED
Omits pages that are dated LEAVESOUT
Pierced, cut and pruned badly PUNCTURED
Plants discussed by extras in the entertainment industry RHUBARBS
Projection torn apart by hothead THORN
Recluse, leaving the Home Counties, turned up with an abscess ULCER
Scramble data for company in dire need ENCODE
Scrap damaged lute outside craft TUSSLE
The bards travelled repeatedly from side to side BREADTHS
Time and again, best three-quarters appear most frequently OFTENEST
Tumult at centre of break up blonde initialised HUBBUB
Unknown poem for student to warble YODEL
Unpalatable order: lie in bed INEDIBLE