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Cryptic 29505 - 4 October 2024 - set by Kite for the Guardian
Across
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Promotes good new cut mushrooms (9)
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Actor lady occasionally aloof (4)
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Diary regularly written to illuminate − it’s as clear as this, so they say (8)
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Crustacean is given old shell (6)
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Maria’s half-cousin at last receives note identifying bird (6)
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One avoiding a slide – none risk slipping (8)
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Great price essentially for duck? (6)
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Point at which layabout without name becomes rogue (8)
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Where deer might have roamed according to an old English geologist (8)
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Drawing to side (6)
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British channel rower ignored fellow US poet (8)
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Hold exercises, resulting in old complaint (6)
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Part of backward African country receiving nothing (6)
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Perhaps Swiss roll, a pure one (8)
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Impress leaders of health club’s training ensemble after retirement (4)
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Cowboys managed goodbyes ignoring expletives and insults at first (9)
Down
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Schumann originally composed like a romantic artist (5)
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Football’s tarzans include outstanding players like this (3-4)
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God introducing short break for heathen (5)
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Picnics maybe forbidden in empty gardens (7)
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Insects, it could be who studies them (9)
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Noticed but left bent cans (7)
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Lack of control, run into toilet and appear briefly cool (5,4)
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A goddess above people with time for laughter (9)
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Relaxed nice moral person working in gallery (4,5)
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Old city enthralled by king’s meal: tongue (7)
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Horse, for example, going around working prison (7)
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Show how his performance gets a sigh (7)
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Stomach upset, right? (5)
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Place votes for shows (5)