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Cryptic 29677 - 24 April 2025 - set by Pangakupu for the Guardian
Across
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Agrees Bill should have trousers (7)
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Pot: certain thing ineffectual people rejected (7)
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Survey part of cricket match involving clubs (4-4)
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When one may have studied fish tail? (6,4)
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Hard exercising with jacket half on (6)
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Confused Dane cornered by Claudius? There’s the rubbing (8)
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Touch thorax, gathering temperature for allergy treatment (5,4)
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Fruit the writer tucked into now and later, after cooking (10)
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Augment with bling, especially in a bracelet (9)
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Row after Irish festival gets more spirited (8)
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Capital city, extravagant? Mostly sleeping (6)
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Harness oil at sea for the most part (5,5)
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Orchestra finally directs adopting C scales (7)
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Dutch city, ancient city, realistic about introduction of tourism (7)
Down
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Mug repeatedly cheers choral work (7)
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Nymph appearing in promotional material for quarry? (5)
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Daughter is left to fool around in books (7)
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Garden implement right in drier surroundings (6)
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Retiring comedian, stressed about source of humour (9)
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Called in a group of soldiers to plan (7)
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Brandish weapon with energy over one of a theatrical disposition? (13)
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One young guy coming in to copy enamelwork (9)
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Assistance in bringing up English children at first in troubled times (7)
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Forecast for aircraft to sequester carbon (7)
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Unsophisticated lust about anything vulgar (3,4)
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Was dismissive of chap’s second edition (6)
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Figurative expression: very high note’s brought about end of mirror (5)