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Cryptic 29378 - 9 May 2024 - set by Imogen for the Guardian
Across
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Fail this manoeuvring, causing skid (8)
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Summons late in the day succeeded securing approval (6)
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Such milk for your health (4-4)
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In hearing, one safely securing capital (6)
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One following round for each amateur (8)
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Chanced to get fine gospel record eventually (6)
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Train tickets found when darkness lifts? (3,7)
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Rare animal fur I flaunted (10)
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Fungal disease coats small English apple (6)
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Horror film must occasionally intimidate (5,3)
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God Michelangelo himself captures (6)
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One sharing a spine with me? (8)
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For whom Imogen compiles, ensconced here? (6)
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Very boring in hospital department recently (2,2,4)
Down
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Join parade and collapse (4,2)
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Insect trapper upset married students (6)
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In plants uranium has leaked across – it’s all over! (6)
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Conclude New York is full? Like hell (10)
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I let navy collapse into sleaze (8)
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Extremely keen on money for workers in yard (8)
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Truss at last out of mind playing a blinder (8)
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Parts of Norfolk and Beds may not understand this speech? (5,5)
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Systematically searches for coins abroad (8)
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Branch kills American comic (8)
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Suffragette and me twice going head to head over policy (8)
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An unkempt person, namely Trump (6)
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Judges predecessor a heavyweight (6)
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Run into bar but eat nothing (6)