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Cryptic 29400 - 4 June 2024 - set by Brummie for the Guardian
Across
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Don’t eat after this Tuesday – be perverse! (3-2,4)
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Unfashionable party cap (5)
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Grizzly, being initially bankrupt? (5)
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Rescue tank one installed in exhibition room (9)
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Start getting ill after toxic element (4,3)
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High road at last gets uneven (7)
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On director’s debut, Titanic offers possible star role (3,5)
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Great month to get a brilliant body transformation (9)
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It’s wrong to bind hands, causing distress (7)
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Classic film – when Jack is dropped (1,4,2,4)
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Shock absorber from wagon that is circling trail (9)
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Latin ‘h’ (not ‘i’) equals ‘lock’ (5)
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Book shortage predicament: there’s no escaping it (5,4)
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Key European city: it’s about to get US city backing (9)
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Check roadside’s sound (4)
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Mounted a Grease production finally, in which, potentially, 22 ac./8 (6)
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‘Journey’s end … night of drifting into bliss’, a poetic death (5,2,3,5)
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Mountain area service provided (6)
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Private duel botched by duke after a brief time (8)
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See 20 Across
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Way to call someone ‘Lynch’ (6,2)
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Tungsten’s unstable around lithium – troublesome (10)
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Flights requiring instrument’s rotation (5)
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Subcontinental city before rain spread about the land (8)
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Put off taking vehicle to north, went back the same way (8)
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Discrimination shown by moving images (6)
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Bar hosts film marketing activity (6)
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One with little experience to lead a country (4)
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Trendy state, 28 (4)
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See 28 Across