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Cryptic 29490 - 17 September 2024 - set by Matilda for the Guardian
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Approach a singer in duet to play (8)
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Type of green salad (5)
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Top current setter (4)
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Slow seeing this garden tool used during scourge (5,5)
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Hold up basket (6)
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From the East, water containing medicine that’s sweet (8)
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On his own, Simon somehow secures Pacific nation (7,7)
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Last two to score when roaring started? (8,6)
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The Guardian may be awfully bad, so there! (10)
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Your health features (4,4)
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Only setting for sculptor’s second bust? (5)
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Look at ship’s make-up (8)
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Toccatas played in a halting style (8)
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When rising, change current (4)
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Star player to be insensitive or see need to change (6,3,4)
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Specifications for docks? (7)
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Hence turned into a nasty person (4)
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Papers in close scare (10)
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The conforming kind of music (6)
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Part of France without an origin (10)
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City is defeated having welcomed financial backer (3,7)
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I need tea break for prisoner (8)
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Sudden mass arrival ruins struggling hospital (6)
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Secure? To some extent, quite the reverse! (6)
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