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Prize 27914 - 31 August 2019 - set by Paul for the Guardian
Across
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Big comedown to dine with a faux French speaker? (9)
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Standard of jazz worried Spike, ladies and gentlemen, by the sound of it? (5-3,5)
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Quid, perhaps, charged originally to cut meat sandwiches (7)
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Light in Greece, not entirely great (7)
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Questionable faith, a priestess ultimately loses it (3,1,3)
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50-peseta piece ready for the press? (7)
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Fat man, tactless (10)
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What's up with newspaper in fictitious case, its views distorted? (4,2,7)
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What cinema promotes is of some importance (7)
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So-called trees, those found on the coastline (7)
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Last of all on card, Uganda: pick Kampala for African capital (5)
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Something written about in poem, new spins on certain verb forms (3-6)
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Zulu had this soft touch, as travelling around desert (4,2,9)
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Trap fly in the ointment (5)
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Exclusive, published extract (5,3)
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Female bird impressed by male's train, I see? (6)
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Present finally wrapped up, also peel off sticker (9)
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Scratching bottom, a disease is in large rodent (6)
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Hands just level with heads in every sense (8,7)
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Old socialist, Spooner's Napoleon X? (4,4)
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Two beats for number one, perhaps? (5,3)
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Unpaid Hollywood actor? I don't care much for that! (6,3,7)
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Loose robe, child's short one? (6)
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Media channel right for audio broadcasting (5,4)