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Cryptic 29508 - 8 October 2024 - set by Tramp for the Guardian
Across
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Cosmetic treatments deal with bags (4,5)
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One played music in independent school (4)
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Frenchman and wife to start again (5)
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Live TV: he is playing with one musician … (9)
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… one wild rock singer at the start takes top off (7)
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Hill backing Red Bull’s sporting rivals? (7)
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Perhaps Miss Whiplash with this leader getting chains? (4,9)
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Clever surgery that’s barely legal (5,8)
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Places for refreshment collecting empty retsina bottles (7)
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Agent making viewers stream Zoom chat? (4,3)
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Stress too much on the subject of government (9)
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Loincloth with organ visible in the middle (5)
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Place to meet European (4)
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Reaching climax after old lover, model (9)
Down
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Unsociable hours mainly? Face getting sacked (8)
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Do I see curve (5)
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Pressure on one in debt: snap quickly in early meeting (5,9)
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Copper twice arrests street artists (7)
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Top one working hard? (7)
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Switch to ITV: a rap singer appears (9)
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One tucking into food with pastry (6)
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The Tramp thread is short: idiot bloke appears first (7,7)
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Able to suck in stomach muscles? Angled to attract men (9)
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Dieting to mind figure, ultimately? Hardly! (8)
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Standard time for delivery (7)
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Turn back on deal, mostly (7)
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Not like this clue? One getting angry (6)
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Information is for bottled spirits? (5)