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Prize 28506 - 24 July 2021 - set by Crucible for the Guardian
Across
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Boiler going in benefits root crop (7)
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Pilfer a couple of books in Coop (7)
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Regularly saw firms dip (4)
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Like pulse clear, say, when admitted (10)
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Seafood devoured by four Chinooks (6)
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Dispatch 100 papers showing scoop maybe? (3,5)
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A small South American country's exporting a Yankee vegetable (9)
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Brightest star first in list including Charlie and Mike (5)
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Cow's beef, pickled (5)
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Shepherd uses goat with rare old herbivore (9)
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Boar at it gets butchered (8)
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Have avoided astringent dessert (6)
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Not how Sybil referred to her husband, Herb! (5,5)
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Scots vomit almost swallowing cold drink in Bonn (4)
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Issue subversive speech with no introduction (7)
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Evacuate middle of next island (7)
Down
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Where climbers go on horseback with notices about river (7)
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Immature flyer's city rate (5)
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Staff not available to collect first of the dough (7)
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Indecisive prince heading off to secure king's band (6)
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Decline flattens out finances (9)
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Cook laughs about duck stew (7)
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Wild garlic chokes posh traveller but not ordinary farmer (13)
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A pair of students and old workers fill dry beds here (9)
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Free, like a new bass? (7)
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Greek cross about a very large area for salmon (7)
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European city's butter's occasionally genuine (7)
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Unfinished volumes slip (3-3)
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King Edward, say, initially took over in Germany (5)