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Everyman 4053 - 23 June 2024 - for the Guardian
Across
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Short shabby detective – US – I went there! (8)
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English: scratching head, unable to qualify (6)
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Edward by island on sailboat, reversing at water’s edge (8)
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Awkward, grand and long – at the outset, uncle’s hosted (6)
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Everyman is improperly described by two lines making damaging accusation (5)
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Squeeze a beauty, we’re told, to arouse memories (4,1,4)
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Postpone unit’s dance and indoor game (5,8)
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Range of human inaction unsettling (8,5)
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On track, bat’s simple stroke (3,6)
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Nosy astronauts left (5)
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Studious, tense and wimpish (6)
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Swayed, being camp (8)
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Once again despatched gift without slightest hint of provocation (6)
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Suffers sea song I butchered (8)
Down
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Feuding family’s pills laced with uranium (8)
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‘Animal star sign.’ ‘Chameleon?’ ‘Not entirely.’ (3)
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Brief moments with that French woman – and wine (7)
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‘Undecorated’? Right to get rise, as base layer’s been applied (11)
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Amateur artist to capture rising waterfall (7)
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Great amounts rain heavily on blokes protecting duck (11)
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In placid manner, pick six characters from seven lycanthropes (6)
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Ones drawing fictional pig? They appeal to the girls (4-7)
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What the absent-minded (or uncaring) greengrocer does (3,4,1,3)
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Doesn’t leave out trendy crosswords’ building blocks: about 500! (8)
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Upriver, glimpsed along Nile’s drainage area: national, primarily? (7)
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Relate to sorrow (7)
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Literary figure found meandering in Detroit, mostly (6)
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Stoves regularly seen in sets (3)