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Cryptic 29645 - 18 March 2025 - set by Yank for the Guardian
Across
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Stripped of crown, old King put back in King’s birthplace (6)
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Women covering courts to show sports logos (8)
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Horny beast seen in much of Auld Sod (5)
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Proposes factions come before Yank’s holiday in report (4,5)
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Positive on location of closing parenthesis? (5,4)
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It arrives after November and it’s 13½ inches tall (5)
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Worry former partner with messy separation (12)
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Interest expressed by two sailors at sea, shelled fare (5,7)
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Coolidge escapes catastrophe for peace (5)
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Penny, a migrant, healed bird (9)
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Seek treasure perhaps in small island, shady place (5,4)
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Section of Villanova, home to vaqueros (5)
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Chewing on something hard: golf ball? (8)
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Game canine evacuated, cutting cheese (6)
Down
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Green tea brewed for Joan of Arc when executed? (8)
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Where Rick played softly, bit of solid gold (5,3)
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Removing cap, splash in mud where Oddfellows gather (5)
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Forgoing competition, saving time, leaving no evidence (7,1,5)
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Blue, rotten apricot or salmon? (3-6)
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Odist’s dance at church (6)
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Cleo’s killer beheaded on this spot in field (6)
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Fixing craps game, I’m an employer of dirty tricks (5,8)
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Not much money for pair of singers (5,4)
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Underworld hack rejected secretive body part (8)
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Figuratively, Olive Oyl, head Bialystok resident? (8)
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Operatic villain, maybe little green man, one with big ears (6)
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Doctor issued cause of atrophy (6)
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Athlete coming from rear in preliminaries (5)