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Cryptic 29564 - 12 December 2024 - set by Pasquale for the Guardian
Across
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Longing suppressed by a baseball player (7)
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Pet making small mark in The Guardian? (6)
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As character making repeated appearance, female artist blocks entrance (8)
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Ask to engage member of parliament – support is not straight (3,3)
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Writer to act as bodysnatcher? Little hesitation, time to intervene! (6,6)
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EU nice and calm after disruption, helping to tolerate different beliefs? (10)
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Regret impolite daughter being banished (3)
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Feature of the ideal religious festival (3)
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Power to discern the future in a time of no experimentation? (10)
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Inability to go against outpost holding minimal cash? (12)
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One geometrical section as a defining image? (6)
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Six taking time to collect vehicle from house near church? (8)
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Sound irritates Oxford school (6)
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What could make pest move decisively (4,3)
Down
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Servant making contribution to a … (4)
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… ___, as far as I’m concerned (4)
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Transfer completed finally in German city (8)
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The artist coming first is blooming early (5)
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Sailor gets ‘eap up on ship (6)
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See nag prevail, somehow talking gibberish? (10)
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Listed heart, previously in appropriate colour (10)
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Reportedly makes hard bargains (6)
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Begging rail-destroyer to stay outside home counties (10)
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Irritating bounders upset your setter (10)
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One time to limit sound of contentment that will rise and suddenly grow (6)
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Holy group over time offering guidance (8)
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Severe princess once banished from region (6)
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Take off clothes, first to last, making short journeys (5)
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Decisive blow upsetting old animal (4)
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Church officer, member of a tribe (4)