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Everyman 4090 - 9 March 2025 - for the Guardian
Across
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March curtailed, flipping study intensely (4)
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Loud gale found smashing bay (4,2,4)
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Primarily – unsurprisingly – this Randstad eco city has trams! (7)
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Pair of characters from 2001 (7)
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Nurse schooner, perhaps port overseen by me (7,6)
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Carbon copy, fireproof (a bit) (5)
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‘Mousy’ lion revived in alarming fashion (9)
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Poor, like a ‘Dreadful’ description of gruesome Victoriana? (9)
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Love to yak emptily going round city (5)
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Dancing, gather bottles and music-maker (6,7)
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Aerodynamic device that might come with an alert (7)
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One takes a bow before and after concert (7)
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After university, Frenchman acting affectedly: not impressive (10)
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Disrespectfully, Your Majesty, two or three are needed for a dance (4)
Down
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Cold rough pods crushed for help when you’re down with something … (5,5)
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… or rapid deployment in some things coming down? (7)
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Complete state (5)
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Cool: Eliot embracing ‘the East’ in freeform works (9)
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Dessert: tomato on a rusty nail? (5,8)
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Removes antlers from deer, regularly cropped, first to last? (7)
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Grub meaning peace won’t come? (4)
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Cut around nasty old icicle: it grips tightly (9,4)
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Charlatans’ trendier analyses heard (10)
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Offers introductory music (9)
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One’s mixed with gin and drop of rosso (7)
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Bad borscht; no starter; Everyman hiding: he avoids problems (7)
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Philosopher’s preparin’ dish for Paul Hollywood, you say? (5)
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Biblical brother covered in Worcestershire sauce (4)