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Everyman 4052 - 16 June 2024 - for the Guardian
Across
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Departed at the last minute (4)
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Clairvoyancy of the Dark Ages? (10)
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Successfully wear dress that’s not loud (4)
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Infernal class of exercises taking time? Son, they could be positive (5,5)
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Puts in a call to Dover? Or Rugby? (7,5)
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Ditches storage’s cap; escalates, in part (7)
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Pacify with a k-kind of pudding (7)
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Encourages rising, sets off to go around North (7)
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In Oxford at the outset, intensively study flipping electrical engineer (7)
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Hotel’s rather fancy – here? (6,6)
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Everyman’s … average. ‘Rank’? That’s too much (10)
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When nothing changes if you turn back time? (4)
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Sum like ‘125 x 8’? (5,5)
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Man, perhaps, in audition the writer’s going to (4)
Down
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Clear ‘Hello!’ misread in French city (2,8)
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Government economist in battered trenchcoat (10)
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Tells one that might be Des: About 1? (7)
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Weapon’s deployed, obtaining vegetable (4,3)
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Distribute dodgy enterprises (11)
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Rear of capuchin monkey? Scruff of the neck (4)
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Otherwise, university in London’s backing English (4)
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Got arrested (11)
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Stinking drunk, old and amorous (10)
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Struggle in unpicking ancestries (10)
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Some wholesaler, nouveau-riche, somewhere on the Med (7)
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Revered Hindu’s headgear pinched by parent (7)
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Go round with would-be fiancé’s offering (4)
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Crossword setter’s written up mother’s novel (4)