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POSSIBLE CLUES FOR "DELAY"
#  CLUE
1. The English lady, foolishly is out to procrastinate (5)
2. Headed back before an unknown hold-up (5)
3. Livestream annoyance
4. Computer lag
5. Within 24 hours the Spanish postpone (5)
6. Note about university setback (5)
7. Traveller's headache
8. Defer, hold up (5)
9. Schedule snag
10. Cause of a Heathrow row, possibly
11. Test of
12. Airport schedule notice
13. Mass-transit problem
14. Throw off schedule
15. A bold-up for 24 hours around American railroad (5)
16. Put off part of the week to entertain English learner (5)
17. May a ledger hold return for a hold-up?
18. Slow someone down or make them late (5)
19. Pause or hinder (5)
20. Put off the Spanish within twenty-four hours (5)
21. Schedule setback
22. Postpone, defer (5)
23. Cause a holdup
24. Deadline threatener
25. Moratorium (5)
26. Rain ___ (baseball game interruption)
27. A hold-up for the Spanish within twenty-four hours (5)
28. How to put off an Eastern lady (5)
29. Check the Spanish in time
30. Slowing of progress
31. Interruption (5)
32. Put off relocation for lady around Spain (5)
33. Slow dean opening a university up
34. Slow dean opening a university up (5)
35. Put off until another time
36. Scheduling snag
37. Hold-up, 24 hours, involving the Spanish
38. Hold-up, 24 hours, involving the Spanish (5)
39. Forbid one to wear a beard
40. Twitch stream annoyance
41. Impede the progress of French narrative poem to be sung
42. Heatedly disputed knocking off the stall (5)
43. Defer, or hold up (5)
44. Keep from being on time
45. Pause (5)
46. Pause held up Welsh singer over year (5)
47. Lady going around the East suffers a hold-up (5)
48. Definitely not something passengers want to face (5)
49. A hold-up for the Spanish within 24 hours (5)
50. Cause tardiness
51. What may feel interminable at a terminal
52. Act slowly on
53. Sleepyhead doesn't count sheep by stone wall (5)
54. Lag finally escaped lock-up (5)
55. Lag finally escaped lock-up
56. Put off returning university student, essentially (5)
57. Hang around for a time outside the help centre
58. Postponement (5)
59. Lateness as for an airplane's takeoff
60. Travel annoyance
61. Wait a few hours without the Spanish
62. Wait for a New Deal on the 4th of July
63. Hinder model Ayrshires
64. Arrest some felon In time (S)
65. Arrest some felon in time
66. Put off until a later time
67. Lag towards rear in Yale demo (5)
68. Temporary hold-up (5)
69. Put off giving the key back by a day (5)
70. Put off inside layers
71. Act later than planned
72. A hold-up made layabouts stay inside
73. Stay and flirt (5)
74. Make someone late
75. Obstruct Derek most of the way
76. Hold up, postpone (5)
77. Deferment of French song (5)
78. A hold-up (5)
79. Hold up, ... the start
80. The English lady is upset about the hold-up (5)
81. Traveler's headache
82. Put off English lecturer in light period (5)
83. Mandela yet to cover stall (5)
84. Air traveller's bummer
85. Hang around with a dunderhead friend (5)
86. Hold up proceedings (5)
87. Video chat problem
88. Takeoff annoyance
89. Hold up a crooked deal that's nearly concluded
90. It may be a waste of time
91. Airport frustration
92. The Spanish, during the day, have a pause (5)
93. Unpleasant airport news
94. During the day, the Spanish have an inactive period (5)
95. Deferral in order to steal the chooks' eggs (5)
96. Why lead out when there's a hold-up? (5)
97. Why take the lead and hold things up? (5)
98. 24 hours around the Spanish stall (5)
99. 24 hours around the Spanish stall
100. Put off for a while (5)

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