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Cryptic 29128 - 21 July 2023 - set by Picaroon for the Guardian
Across
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Stop being a TV viewer's plaything (4-2-3-3)
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Characters inspired by Benjamin Franklin later on (5)
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Department stores priest runs for one who waits (9)
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Spooner's child spotted miso ingredient (7)
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Satellite broadcaster mostly welcoming new input (7)
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Peril in the deep sewer, working inside it (3,7)
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Say Ivan Toney's shots always rebound? Only the headers (4)
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Blunder? If so, bumbler becomes humbler (4)
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Ex-president requires hand with task to perform (10)
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Legislature's better current tax cut (7)
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Rocket leaves now starter for lunch, and swell cakes provided (4-3)
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Wanting drive, hate travelling in empty Landcruiser with smoke coming from the back (9)
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Bit of hip old city (5)
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Join in revolution, deposing leader with initiative (12)
Down
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After a short time, get hold of small items put in the post (5,4)
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Ferry operator retaining games supervisor (8)
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Playmaker's chronic complaint over Everton's wingers (5)
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European punching body part — nose gets swollen (9)
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For the radio engineer, something beautiful to behold (6)
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Excerpt from Antonioni's domestic tear-jerker? (5)
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Fans of the sauce really tucking into sauces (6)
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Agent displaying the odds of Burberry receiving fine (6)
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Opening of supermarket destroys clothes shop, creating workforce issue (6,3)
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Shanty about upright character joining navy salt? (9)
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Grand artist and I squabble about muralist's works (8)
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What's spent on Wall Street banks in large-scale collapse (6)
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Slag off Guardian setter, turning on a Guardian setter (6)
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Attack right back in box that's well defended (6)
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Reason why waiter may be annoyed around Spike (5)
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Fruit for Wilhelm I, cutting into large one (5)