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It’s Harvest Festival time so this month’s word is HARVEST. Good luck everyone!

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HARVEST

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38 entries

1

Gathering in hotel accepted others around five (7)

Def is Gathering. H, A, R{V}EST

2

Against squeezing out core of most unyielding fruits (7)

V replacing the middle letter of HAR(d)EST = Definition

3

Hear cooking preserves very good man's produce (7)

Anagram (cooking) of HEAR containing (preserves, in sense keeps/retains) V(ery) + ST (good man) = produce

4

High camper inside eats bananas and gathered others? (7)

H + RV in *EATS extended def = gathered others?

5

Taking in undershirt after originally hinting at rotundness (7)

VEST after H A R, definition "Taking in"

6

In broken earths plant five fruits (7)

Put V into anagram of earths. Fruits is the definition

7

Gather and save bits of the ripest, heartiest nuts (7)

Def = "gather"; (SAVE + first letters of "the ripest, heartiest")*

8

He cropped Strava runs and combined output (7)

HE+STRAV(a)* (runs), 'output that has been combined'

9

Yield down by 99% essentially, most perplexing (7)

"Yield" | D (500) reduced by 99% to V (5) in the middle of HAR(D)EST

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10

Gathering of heads vs heart descends into chaos (7)

def (gathering of (grain) heads) = VSHEART* (descends into chaos)

11

Vet has to undertake, in essence, grim reaper's work (7)

(VETHAS + ('to') [unde]R[take])* (Anagrind: 'grim', Def.: 'reaper's work')

12

Gather in underwear after no end to suffering (7)

def gather in underwear>VEST after(jux) no end to(end del) suffering>HAR[m]

13

Make an issue of bottomless underwear revealing a moon (7)

Make an issue of (bottomless) = HAR(p). Underwear = VEST ... (revealing) = a moon

14

At end of the growing season, busy earthmovers deliver this and more (7)

Compound (or subtraction?) anagram (busy) EARTHMOVERS* = HARVEST MORE; all-in-one clue as def

15

Bring in Heidi initially to restrict funding of cycling (7)

Def: bring in. H(eidi) + STARVE (to restrict funding of) -> ARVEST (cycling)

16

Bounty hunter’s first rifle pressed against Kevlar (7)

“bounty” / H (hunter’s first) + AR (rifle) next to (pressed against) VEST (Kevlar)

17

The product of turning earth with the tops of spades - vegetables? (7)

(EARTHS[pades]V[egetables])*turning / &lit

18

Crop top crowned by uncovered piercing (7)

Down clue. VEST(top) below (s)HAR(p) (uncovered piercing). Def crop

19

As a hybrid, the variety succeeded - producing this! (7)

Anag. ('as a hybrid') of THE + VAR ('variety') + S ('succeeded') = defn. ('this'). Semi &littish

20

Remove brown underwear after voiding bowels in kecks (7)

[C]HAR+VEST = remove (as per Chambers). Bowels = innermost part of anything (Chambers). Apologies.

21

Gather fruit? (7)

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22

Starve to death after going without, essentially (7)

&lit (STARVE)* - to death - after witHout (essentially)

23

Earth's spoils, including spot of veg? (7)

Anag of EARTHS + V; &lit

24

Take and possess stone without right (7)

HAVE + ST outside R; def is take (as in amount taken in)

25

Crop tops from Harrods aren’t raunchy underwear (7)

Def crop; first letters H A R + VEST

26

Crop a crop? (7)

Cryptic definition. To cut a cultivated plant.

27

Return fiery aftershaves. NOT SAFE! (7)

Def = Return, AFTERSHAVES* - safe

28

Return Harry's half removed underwear (7)

Def. RETURN = Harry's half removed (HAR) + Underwear (VEST)

29

Hoe and reap valuable earlier sown turnip tops (7)

First letters &lit

30

Gather the rich mingle with right-wingers (7)

Def: Gather. HA(R)VES(T) - ‘HAVES’ (the rich) x R[igh]T

31

Grim reaper? (7)

CD - Reference to 'Grim' as a famous crop type in the 1800s!

32

Reap negative consequences shortly over getting naked by street (7)

HARVEST ("Reap") = HAR(m) [negative consequences shortly] + (o)VE(r) [over getting naked] + ST [street]

33

Skinless shark perplexed vet's gathering (7)

Skinless s(HAR)k + anagram vets (VEST) = Def.

34

H.R. stave off cull (7)

HRSTAVE (fodder) off (anagrind) cull (def)

35

Jiggle her vast fruits (7)

Jiggle* HER VAST fruits (definition)

36

Young singer's "vintage" record collection? (7)

Two definitions: 1972 Neil Young album & collection

37

Could be Weinstein detailed sources of sex tape collection (7)

HARVE{y} (detailed) + first letters S{ex}T{ape} DEF: collection

38

Gather that naked king put on underwear (7)

defintion - gather. tHAt + R on VEST (as a down entry)