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Everyman 3877 - 31 January 2021 - for the Guardian
Across
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Protect two companies? Almost; one (6)
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M. le Président, missing mother, drinks fizz to become resolute (4-4)
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Museum for the blind? (6)
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Playwright, Shaw, not half confusing reading, mostly (8)
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In a little Nissan, Guinevere is cheerful (8)
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Spout about aliens: 'They're often seen in the sky' (3,3)
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Young and wary, woo nervously in song (2,4,3,3)
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Superintendent Kerr: 'Folks, cow has run amok' (5,2,5)
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Everyman's wearing, on and off, clergy's distinctive garb (6)
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Some forks I'd picked up in the northeast (8)
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Butler's conveying luggage at first: I'm grateful, that's capital (8)
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Moistens black turnip after flipping (6)
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With Pence gone, White House inhabitant's now a kind of doctor (8)
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Exceedingly determined inventor; salesman of note, primarily? (6)
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It's heard on radio: 'In California, 50 N American soldiers rising' (4,4)
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Relishes chance to slyly hit you up, nervous, excited, initially aroused (8)
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Victorian novel in which Spooner solicits orange healer? (3,6,6)
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Desire fish in East End (4)
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Rudely, they wakened deer needing longer rest (5-3,7)
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Spoke up, at first ignored, wanting hot veg (6)
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Degree of precision: 'Number ... not 100 ... bit less than 100' (6)
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Fuss about nothing, principally, arriving from South in principality (7)
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Opposite motorway, under a Gormley (7)
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Personal ones may wear these! (8)
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Announces only a little blusher's intended to be seen (6,2)
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Musical old organ (6)
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Tuvalu's topless resort with fleshy bodies (6)
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School kept going with odd absences (4)