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Cryptic 29612 - 7 February 2025 - set by Paul for the Guardian
Across
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Blight form (5)
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Where milk once regularly placed with piece of bread? (8)
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Wake-up call, cross-party talks? (4-1-6-3)
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Discrimination therefore involves a thousand people (8)
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Range from Ark ultimately covered by dove? (6)
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Funny serial about shaving people from behind, very prickly! (9)
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Arabian Peninsula city Arabs rebuilt (5)
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Bright boy speaking up? (5)
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Chaining cycle, punctured tyre on it (9)
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Line in a report that’s out (6)
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March slightly lacking in recollection of spring, for comparison (8)
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Jazz Age superstar, wild thing masking pain, she be dancing? (9,5)
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Plant saving fuel, plant saving fuel? (8)
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Scruffy legion fed gruel, primarily (5)
Down
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For which Roux trains when cooking? (8,4)
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A nice turn that’s high up in the air (9)
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The inevitable schadenfreude at house arrests (5)
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Muck in bidet soon spattered about (2,4,3)
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C_A_C_? (4)
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Get large drink and experience its effect? (3,6)
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Digital reference, nothing in Japanese city coming up (1-4)
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Moving left and right with angularity, one way, then another and back? (12)
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Content to leave early in matches with East Asian, once (9)
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Ten wheels came down on public transport (9)
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Thin piece that’s served up I finish off in bites (9)
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Hanging head in embarrassment, going places earlier? (5)
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Salt pocketing black book (5)
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Still ruined (4)