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Cryptic 29182 - 22 September 2023 - set by Paul for the Guardian
Across
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Author, I applaud your observation when 5? (5)
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Go abroad with Iberian native (9)
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Travel Lodge's opening in sweet marsh to the west (9)
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Animal they see, Noah seeing every second (5)
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See 19
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Work out when filling gone — empty? (7)
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Club's last, equally true voice (5)
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Horse and badger (3)
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Nuts off the menu for Rover? (5)
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Rusty old, old nails very, very strong, marines concluding (3,4)
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Fibre ultimately absent, lady keen to knit without threads (7)
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Cut costs, bound to save money, initially (5)
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What dog might wish to do to be lifted? (2,7)
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Careless line failing to impress good man (9)
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One, two, three and four back in house (5)
Down
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Drink first of sherries, something going to one's head (4)
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Underwear stocks, say? (8)
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Dogs, say, misleading guards (4)
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Shrew lifting bottom, tricky when tail removed earlier (8)
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Tiddly brief (6)
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Politician: his being slightly inadequate, hole up when in jeopardy (5,5)
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Fourth, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth letters, all going to the third, reportedly? (6)
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Name associated with Facebook article, police onto that (4)
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Nice one: shocker verboten (5)
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Similar doctor arrested by dodgy Irish cop (10)
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Minute completed and day ends (5)
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Like Dorothy's house in 1939 film? (4,4,3,4)
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Part of football pitch where energy's located? (8)
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Farm egg I tend to put out in kitchen drawer? (6,6)
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Noughts: zero no good as a particular number (4,4)
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Animal impression (4)