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Everyman 4091 - 16 March 2025 - for the Guardian
Across
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Bring up opportunity to see Hitchcock movie (4,6)
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Revolutionary, loud apron-wearer (4)
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Fixes ale to order and gets out of one’s skin (10)
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Fancy fellow’s drop of bottled French water (4)
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Making racket – foregone conclusion – excellent: a huge piano! (7,5)
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Acted like a steam train travelling over the moon (7)
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Hot air ignored? Do! (7)
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Not fine, flaunted, displaying cards in deck like so (7)
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Musical fashionable in the past (7)
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Musicians from China barmaid enlivened (8,4)
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Your crossword compiler is only half there – always (4)
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Sporting fixture – racket bust – let rip (5,5)
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Sea’s movement even, you say? (4)
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Stand-in actor to read European articles first (10)
Down
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Does and bucks rampant in grass (4)
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One (or 17) before Romeo (4)
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Walnut? Not half! And a little Discovery or Fuji’s cored, as prepared in diners, primarily (7,5)
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Greek character danced topless with subtlety (7)
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A little yobbo near there, where you live (2,5)
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Around end of dinner, hail her cab, mostly arranged in ranks (10)
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Undergarment that goes on before blusher (10)
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In turn, they’ll get you going (8,4)
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Seconds, cheap in the extreme and most delicious (10)
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Department’s leader reporting to top teacher, an idiot (10)
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Some wrote her a note somewhere in Iran (7)
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Announced boxy workspace (7)
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Foremost of peaks enveloping River Ucayali – here! (4)
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Remain conscious throughout Australia Day, finally (4)