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Cryptic 29662 - 7 April 2025 - set by Vulcan for the Guardian
Across
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Emergency call from cruise entertainers (7,4)
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Monsoon crushing one’s fruit (7)
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Thanks to the French, an Anglo-Saxon settled in the Midlands (7)
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Many learners use this vehicle, but not to drive (6,3)
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Legendary bowler out for a duck? (5)
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Intelligence forbidden to Americans (4)
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Dressed for celebration, one made for a return (10)
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Head for motorway on right (10)
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The holders of the Ashes? (4)
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A London attraction with pulling power? (5)
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Spooner’s insect, unable to rise, had a little sleep (9)
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Hack out a path, and picture exposing the interior (7)
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A character would have to get changed, to make immense plunge (7)
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Unnecessarily tend laundry that’s to be spun (11)
Down
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Active, drag to the bank one uncomfortably placed (1,4,3,2,5)
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Are you letting me start, mate? (5)
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Receptacle bust into pieces in row (7)
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In Vietnam, a stealthy gesture of greeting (7)
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Extraordinary third eye that is passed down the generations (8)
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Notice perhaps to keep away from a soldier’s effects (7,8)
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Cooler pair with one boy (6)
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Discontent of one group of nations with the others (6)
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Took a while? (8)
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A coup, getting place at school (6)
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No yacht moves as fast as this imagined thing (7)
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Wine is nastier when drunk (7)
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Turf laid over earth is saturated (6)
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Reveal daughter has got into a university (5)