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Cryptic 29513 - 14 October 2024 - set by Maskarade for the Guardian
Across
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Buys tea in bags (9)
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Suffer backing old police force and its patch (5)
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Mathematical ability required when holding Chippendales auditions? (1,4,3,7)
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A truly incomplete state (4)
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Chips in, holding a dairy cow (8)
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Officers giving material to the workers (9)
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Pub containing four regularly having a joke (2,3)
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Peaceful girl, alluring one, topless, at end of promenade (5)
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Align oneself round gallery, admitting it’s nothing in Nancy (9)
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Bridge opponents from the media love coffee (8)
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Down-at-heel old solver given hiding! (4)
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Anthem offering trade-offs with hymnal, possibly (4,2,2,7)
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Conferences on limiting food? (5)
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Comes across record deliveries (9)
Down
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Up mountain, two sharp bends and a square (5)
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Animal came ‘ither by boat, we hear (3,4)
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Twitcher’s refuge is somewhat ghastly (4)
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Top Surrey cricketers out with boat (4)
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Light clothing from Asia. Fruits served (6,4)
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Part of engine congested with dirt (10)
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Amusing character, one with a couple of females. That’s capital! (7)
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Sympathetic sound conveyed on a screen (9)
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Crimson first lady prunes blossoms again (10)
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Nuneaton’s alter ago, we hear! (10)
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Turned round, getting different views seeing valley going north (9)
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Money paid out to former US vice-president, we’re told (7)
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Minerva regularly gripped by desire to win (7)
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Stops blowing top and relaxes (5)
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Buffoons regularly, little green men seen here? (4)
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Emperor ran away from Italian city (4)