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Cryptic 29713 - 5 June 2025 - set by Yank for the Guardian
Across
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Nun gets broken arm (4,3)
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Get hold of jailbird said to be connected (7)
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Accessory involved in sex, traditionally (5)
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Groupie heard to follow turkey? It’s a joke (3,6)
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Run around centre of Livery Hall and tour Mayfair, say (7,3)
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Toughie, at its heart? Yuck! (3)
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Spooks centre stage, dancing to Moussorgsky’s Fifth (6,6)
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Cooked old tree’s bark crafted into farm fare (6,6)
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Convenient device in section of meat market (3)
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Commit to each shelter rescue’s value (10)
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River bird catches swallow (5,4)
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Supply material for laughfactory.com? (5)
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Seek supplements? (4,3)
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Outstanding saltine crackers (7)
Down
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In speech, do away with troika? (6)
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Touts divorcée’s upside-down position (6)
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Royal’s EKG clearly doctored (5,5)
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Spruce infested with bugs, reportedly (5)
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Collected round bottom of cesspit and turned rotten? (9)
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Bit of force dropping on Shakespearean eye donor? (4)
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Modifying source of waste water and rolling in it (8)
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Where doll may be found in attempt to win young fellow heading off to Switzerland (3,5)
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Lots and lots to flush, perhaps? (1,5,4)
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Stock component of stunt flier’s tail (5,4)
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It may order you to stop excluding Scotland Yard from fraudulent accident log (8)
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Impressed with ecstasy rush (8)
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Applaud end of cholesterol in fried food (6)
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Bombshell executive in a pickle (6)
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Petitions withdrawing conclusion of suit (5)
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This Simpsons character goes both ways (4)