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Cryptic 29342 - 28 March 2024 - set by Tramp for the Guardian
Across
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Plant’s core cultivated with soil to reproduce (5-9)
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Bulb repeatedly lit with current suppressed (5)
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Fighter turning up to register after soldier (8)
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Strange US diet – belly of fella gets thinner (7)
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Revealing outfit? Mini skirts a new look, ultimately (7)
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Both ends of laces threaded by feeling holes (5)
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In case of doubt, is your husband inside cheating? (9)
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Wake wanting bit of medicine at hospital (9)
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Boxer knocking the stuffing out of Teddy boy (5)
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Luger pistol at the front modified with a silencer (7)
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Son getting punched, not hard, is floored (7)
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Naked old woman in apartment (8)
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Underwear, without padding, so plain (5)
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Notice member bending rules (8,6)
Down
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What might make a full house from pack? Run following suit (5-7)
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Boris saving skin? He finally left Oxford college (5)
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It rains, empty sewage at sea, this might get dirt on surface (9)
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Did face set day after surgical procedure? (7)
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Deal close to drug mule taking tablets in grams? (7)
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New Year bill at the end paid for by plastic (5)
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Shortness of balls: second over at the crease (9)
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Meeting sweethearts – they’re easy to take out (7,5)
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I learn it off by heart, essentially with other things (5,4)
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Have more than admired dress? Exposed on top (9)
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A sequence of four letters about one native (7)
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Online reference needing number and name (7)
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Reason I pass; lecturer reflecting on college (5)
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Old-fashioned piano, on property, missing foot (5)