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Everyman 3821 - 5 January 2020 - for the Guardian
Across
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When topless man’s announced? (3,5)
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Revolutionary Judea inspires very familiar feeling (4,2)
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Star, laid back, is old timer (7)
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Staged tea dance without a pirouette (7)
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Peacekeepers assembled with a marine to demilitarise (5)
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Visiting university, Australian redhead drained one firkin at first, large amount of booze (4,2,3)
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Act oddly, shake rump, getting as low as you can (2,4,6)
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Is circle flat? Possibly … doubtful (4-8)
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Everyman misrepresents height a fraction (3-6)
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German army’s spirit (5)
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Patient’s ill – nearly about to amputate limb, to begin with (7)
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Withholding sex appeal, not a Beatles song primarily wanting for orchestration! (3,2,2)
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Grim-sounding novelist (6)
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They say Mr. Broadbent's tired with sportswear (3,5)
Down
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To suppress America, His Highness stifled rising (4,2)
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Light gas without energy floats around tank to begin with (3-3)
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Preposterous to describe mum using colloquialisms (9)
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Oh golly! Falling – not seriously – for society girl (5,9)
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Some contents taken from refrigerator: famous inspiration for poetry (5)
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Draws a tableau originally with expanses of land (8)
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Buckle under in the morning temperature? Inconceivable (8)
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Actress, one embraced by dissolute rake, chivalrous in conversation (5,9)
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Butterfly variety seen in books on Italy and Portugal (6-3)
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Champions see soup's prepared (8)
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Jazz outfit thumping lute with bone (4,4)
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North-west town’s sportsman (forward) (6)
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Answermust include the ancient city (6)
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Write-in candidates including South American (5)