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His dance is close to Parvathi's heart (5)

SHIVA

- Ramki @ The Hindu

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This country borders Russia in east (7)

UKRAINE

- The Independent

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Country, one with capital in Abuja (7)

NIGERIA

- Paul @ The Guardian

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What's round and called "tangerine", ultimately? (6)

ORANGE

- Paul @ The Guardian

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Stole quietly away? (6) 

INCHED

- The Times

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Lad regularly plunging into water, after small round object? (5,5) 

PEARL DIVER

- Alberich

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Cop in male form (9)

POLICEMAN

* e.g., origin of goose (3)

EGG

Milk: it tenderly laps it! (6)

KITTEN

Spoil vote! (4)

VETO

God incarnate, essentially! (4)

ODIN

How to describe something which marks a boundary? (8) 

HEDGEROW

In this, one may be flung out of car hitting tree (5)

CRASH

- The Independent

Make hale? (4)

HEAL

- Rufus

This means getting excited about start of undertaking (10)

ENTHUSIASM

- The Times

One's cold to walk over (6)

ICECAP

- The Guardian

I'm a leader of Muslims (4)

IMAM

- The Guardian

Part of alphabet, Athenian? (4)

BETA

Elevated noble penning lines (5)

BYRON

Terribly angered? (7)

ENRAGED

- old chestnut

Mount Carmel's first section (5)

CLIMB

- The Guardian

Raid, no? Perhaps. (6)

INROAD 

- self

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"primarily" series of Everyman (Alan Connor)

Intellectual studying anatomy, audaciously clutching needle, experimenting with the optic nerve, primarily? (5,6)

ISAAC NEWTON

Natural element, odourless and noble, primarily? (4)

NEON

Evil Typhon's necropolitan abode, primarily? (4)

ETNA