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Prize 28554 - 18 September 2021 - set by Picaroon for the Guardian
Across
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4 plus 9 minus 1 could give this number (7)
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Female with useless fellow, flipping tool (7)
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Run away from lovely Mickey Mouse (5)
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Shaking cups in triumph, after eliminating clubs (9)
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Catching in net at sea, seeking fish (10)
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President has answer for specialists in assembly (4)
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Call on General de Gaulle, for one (11)
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Console Victoria, say, after large cuts in income (11)
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Tablet yours truly had to swallow every year (4)
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Shocked look is what Betty and Scott have, stripped naked (6,4)
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Choreographed a sexed-up Boxing Day dance (3,2,4)
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Piece of trout, rotten piece at the end (5)
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V & A acquires ultimate piece of art (7)
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Dressed football team like Liverpool (7)
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Innovator with logs raised an outstanding platform (6)
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Charge around, returning to participate in revolution (6)
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Main high jumper prone to interrupt fellows roughly (6,4)
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Fresh head of lettuce after fifteen days? (5)
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Deceit cut cocaine supply for mathematician (9)
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Where to flog horse mounted by earl (4)
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What drug dealer may do in kitchen vessel (8)
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Traveller much easier on the eye, we hear (8)
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Clean bumfluff? (6,4)
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Puzzled man at home when the penny drops (3,6)
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Green food: the thing in cooked apples (5,3)
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It's close to Vietnam, place in eastern region (8)
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Perhaps one's taken in drink (6)
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See what's in thus? (6)
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Steer north through curvy region with big curves (5)
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Area covered by Scottish hill runner, perhaps (4)