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Inlaid fancy items with pace (9)

Feudal lord’s portent about Spain, Europe (8)

Thank you

Gawdelpus, the first one is just an anagram ('fancy') of two words....
2. You need a four-letter portent, indication, and the usual Spain and a three letter Europe...

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4 letter portent around 1 letter for Spain 3 letter abbreviation for Europe

Got them, thanks

Those Scots scoff about hotel breaks (4) ?H??

Melrose partly raised a number of small charges? (4) ?R??

Thanks again.

Hi Gawd

First is a Scottish dialect version of "those", and parses as an anagram of a 3-letter "scoff" and the usual 1-letter abbreviation of "hotel"

Second is an included and reversed word, "charges" in the heraldic sense.

Not an anagram, as that would be an indirect anagram, which is not allowed. "About" here means a reversal of the 3-letter "scoff".

Thanks again, it’s coming together nicely now

I’m unsure of my answer for 68a. It is the only word I have that doesn’t work with the message. I read the wordplay as In /Eastern /US state.

energy r not in wordplay e-n-eg-y