6d Cant be poker faced with a full hand in poker
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17d Is this where the new date is set for US? (9)
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16d Definite article for starters so they are whom we learn so much from 3,7 ??E (the?) ???????
9a sounds like an other worldly state-but it's an otherworldly state. (10) no letters so far.