The Guardian - Quiptic crossword No 964 - May 6 2018

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6 is a degree over excited Maltese BASEMETAL
A call for help to take in most appropriate fireproof material ASBESTOS
A maiden employed to be tickled? AMUSED
Advantage of clipped hedges EDGE
Atomic particle containing rare element IRON
Bachelor trip — good chance to find a marriage partner BRIDEGROOM
Ceremonial order's decoration POMPOM
Chaps getting second best score at gathering of great minds MENSA
Code of practice observed in Somerset hospital ETHOS
Confused and cross over theologian's daughter MUDDLED
Dull son's depression SLOW
Emergency service got us a card, surprisingly COASTGUARD
Hosts wanting male animals ASSES
Information from mother about time at university DATUM
Instruction said to give one access to work seen strangely equal OPENSESAME
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Made linocut featuring food shop DELI
Nordic journalist in stylish accommodation SWEDISH
One travelling widely has blog rewritten before English tourist's first meeting with scoundrel GLOBETROTTER
Part of the mouth said show a range of colours PALETTE
Pat turned up about to enter water, giving off a smell BADBREATH
Phone woman getting old marine infection RINGWORM
Real taste to fresh bile TANGIBLE
Result of friction caused by second rate celebrity? BLISTER
Roughly designs atlas for coloured panes STAINEDGLASS
Siblings getting permit to take part in excursions TRIPLETS
Start new plan about surgery TRANSPLANT
State backing included in new lab test to produce food additive TABLESALT
To an Irish engineer, it's academic HISTORIAN
Wait with German in passenger ship LINGER
Work hard to contain limits of necrosis in lymphoid tissue TONSIL