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Everyman 4069 - 13 October 2024 - for the Guardian
Across
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Take two buses back – one interminable, that’s about right – to outskirts (6)
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Envisages crumbly pie crust (8)
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Object: Everyman has salad (6)
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Emphasizes anxieties (8)
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Uncooperative? Quite the opposite! (8)
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Seaman perhaps on leave, a rest (6)
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Heartless hello – daggers brandished – daggers drawn (11)
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Misbehaviour characteristic of the 2000s, you say? (11)
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A professor is Greek, that’s lovely (6)
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Poirot’s one that’s been had, by Jupiter (8)
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Posh comedian? I won’t react (5,3)
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Act as inspiration for puzzle (6)
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Perpetual child’s play (5,3)
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Please raise one’s Stein in toasting, primarily! (6)
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Banksy’s materials: stone – and pencils? Not principally (8)
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Bit of hubbub – a din – a geezer offering banter (8)
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Take apart so as to understand Lenurb? (7-8)
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Greek character included in audiotape (4)
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It’s safe to chase articles needing rewriting (3,5,2,5)
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Whispering sound Bertrand heard (6)
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Framed élite soldiers? That man had (6)
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Classical musician reworked her opus (7)
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Not unknown for Hazel to follow hiphop artist (7)
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You can’t buy those who’ve betrayed their principles (4-4)
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In resort, easiest to be bored by island (in my opinion) (2,1,3,2)
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Tom likes this brief sleep, a becoming one (6)
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The solver: hazard, certainly (3,3)
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Priest raised sick in France? Ace (4)