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Prize 29649 - 22 March 2025 - set by Enigmatist for the Guardian
Across
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Central to two-part adaptation is tense executive (11)
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Content of dialogue’s moving tributes (7)
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Did abuse in retreat hit home here? (7)
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Is mad rolling joints where crewmen are most likely to see you? (9)
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Clouds #3 for Joni; #1 is AC/DC (5)
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See 3 Down
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Barrier Reef explorer who has items at market? Aussie’s dug in (10)
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Flat area is undivided, Times writer claims (10)
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See 18 Down
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The finale of the opening race (5)
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Expert on duty calls reserve back about error (9)
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Retired Limerick man’s enthralled by couple from Jerusalem? (7)
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Shameful act on fateful day: finally Brutus moved to pierce Caesar’s? (7)
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Status symbol Spooner’s given speedy player at the Madejski? (7,4)
Down
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Author’s sick, sicker, upset in turn about broadcasting Sunset Boulevard? (12,3)
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Drink – warming, is it, at daybreak? (5)
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Stock-rider, perhaps the first figure available? (7,4)
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Suspect under cover of some receiver? (3-4)
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Man’s son maybe confirmed to be big hit (8)
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O setter, O setter’s setter? I’m part of a package (4,2,4,2,3)
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Top 23 people long to start holding mass (8,5)
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Revelling in a barrister’s whimsy (13)
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Lonely chap of note working on the butter mountain? … (8)
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… Honoured retirees not alone in flourishing Maine-et-Loire (7)
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Idling teacher’s work done? (7,4)
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American guy’s wrapped selection from Japanese takeaway? (5)