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Cryptic 29565 - 13 December 2024 - set by Boatman for the Guardian
Across
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Leaders of first revolution in crash … (8)
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… way before next bust, perhaps … (6)
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… fearful of acting next (4)
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Critical of population growth: wild animals taking over next (10)
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Next target for the ambitious and spirited (6)
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Next heretical saint, Lucifer’s follower (8)
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After start of assembly, next socialist moving to Left separately (7)
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Maintain surveillance over next terrible riot (7)
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Patrons of hospital: Boatman (Boatman!) next to join society (8)
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Country’s next dash (6)
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Boatman’s cell, harsh at first, next emerged empty and vividly coloured (6-4)
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Next ton of material for glass (4)
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A place in the heavens for next to win, say (6)
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Odds and ends from next drains (8)
Down
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Due to conflict over the middle of the Red Sea ahead (8)
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Tough end cut off vegetable (4)
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Contemptible but delectable, showing no resistance (6)
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Pursue aliens: ask ‘even this is futile?’ (7)
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Really minced its oaths (2,4,2)
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Woman rings boy to collect rustic drink (6,4)
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Leaders of hominids, usually making a nuisance somewhere? (6)
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Badly stung, I go in bawling (7,3)
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Rejoicing in extravagance, raised by parent, ultimately a six-footer (8)
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A joke describing the Titanic, for example (3-5)
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Station on the Oxted line where one second is painful, time slipping away (7)
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Gay porn stash discovered: they keep the blood flowing (6)
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People used to call for these to bear them, but some ceased answering (6)
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Report of having taken part in battles – here (4)