Sunday Telegraph

1) Relative wearing thick coats boils (9)

2) Flash on and off when engineers' body holds back abrasive carbon (6)

3) Various males round up last of regular wanderers in the countryside (6)

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12:43 Sun 02nd Oct 2011
 
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1) carbuncle ?
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Thank you. I was thinking along those lines with the Uncle connection but the clue says boils - plural.
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I now see it Fur uncle s

coats = furs
3) St r ags
STROBE - reversal of E(ngineer)S around BORT (abrasive carbon)

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