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3: English painter whose work is arresting ... (9)
4: Slender flame's emanation (5)
5: Coming back to see old friends, painfully rein in gut (9)
6: Republican badly ires one on the way up (5)
7: Jumped for something extremely loose-fitting (5)
8: Hear Native American appeal (3)
9: Spooner's bar preserved for supported (9)
12: Top colleges have three miles of vine (3,6)
14: Clarifier is followed by mixed signals (9)
15: Puzzling mutation of giant mice (9)
16: A doped-up user cans pledge (9)
20: Hand calculators, starting as backups, add critical information (5)
21: Mousy girlfriend loses head and bellybutton (5)
22: Mom going topless--that's something else (5)
23: Animal hiding in abattoir (3)