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Everyman 4054 - 30 June 2024 - for the Guardian
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Crazy long tale about saloon, perhaps, somewhere in Indian Ocean … (10)
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… eastern image in long tale (4)
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Sterilise (milk perhaps) that’s in and out of sight, they say (10)
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File’s one showing fellows by university (4)
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Freak’s metal bananas in second-hand stalls (4,7)
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Primarily Spanish in etymology: ranges, rising apexes serrated? (7)
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Cold – wearing summer footwear – disgrace! (7)
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Dope and rye – wasted – this’ll help you see straight (3-4)
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Some confront a rioter in Canadian province (7)
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Bug … bear … cricket, perhaps (5,6)
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Flipping prison sentence to throw out (4)
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Everyman is unable to express ‘dunno’ (1,6,3)
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Care for a round number? 500? (4)
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Concerning school to escape being reviewed: make a new plan (10)
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Before start of evening, clean the floor that’s pine (4)
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Soupçon of fly (4)
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Attacks poor and gambles the lot (4,3,5)
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Presents – or hides from view? (7)
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Believes in counterfeits (7)
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President concealing ‘legal’ cash for those seeking power (10)
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In conversation, parish representative’s advisor (10)
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Robert skates erratically: it’s a way of crossing the water (12)
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Fools’ son intended to lose heart in test (10)
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Echoing intemperate petitioner (10)
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Criticise a revolutionary style (7)
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Incredibly wide, rustling up cocaine (7)
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Old Testament figure seen in chocolate sauce (4)
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Use a keyboard, and strain (4)