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Cryptic 29666 - 11 April 2025 - set by Pasquale for the Guardian
Across
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Restrained by some Parisian, crowd reverts to peaceful mode (6)
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Lover, first character to hide in library? (7)
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Endless upset about copper nabbing one wise man (9)
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Waste material not fresh dumped by a lake (5)
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US beer – an early version? (5)
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Film-maker with something black excited nation (9)
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Small animal needs unusual fortifier if fading (7)
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Male, say, to grumble (6)
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Work on Scottish island for a bit (6)
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American guy getting left trapped shows bravado (7)
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Moment era changes – one can gauge the pressure (9)
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I see nothing – then across time small image appears (5)
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Reason for not going to work? Deceitful story fashionable (3-2)
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Singer to manage mystical sound in musical sections (5,4)
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Drunkard in this place offering words of defiance (2,5)
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Terribly idle, inwardly you flap (6)
Down
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Beast pins hero in crucial contest (7)
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Comic book with some inhuman gags (5)
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Spreading fun, Liberal in short out to be bighearted (9)
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Desire that’s odd for a number of years (7)
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Sailors having a party on deck (5)
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Not the same with identity as monarch no longer reluctant to speak out? (9)
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We cannot wait for one sort of deodorant! (4-2)
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Beer warm? Certainly not! (6)
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Terribly inert host becoming most prickly (9)
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Reportedly instructed in a science? That must be right (9)
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Italian water that’s taken on board is OK for drinking (7)
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Ship’s protective layer, as you might say (6)
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Secured criminal let off court appearance? (7)
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Enthusiast for self-improvement appears to be happy (6)
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Maiden in church to act in affected manner (5)
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‘Dog’ could be about right for this (5)