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Quick 16727 - 15 December 2023 - for
the Guardian
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Quietest car ad (anag) – it's not an instant hit (8,5)
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It'll fill a hole (7)
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Cake embellishment (5)
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Half a shandy (4)
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Origin (8)
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Barefoot (6)
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Cheap and poor-quality (6)
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Lucky charm (8)
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Alice, brass or garage? (4)
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Arabic term, origin 'decide a point of law' (5)
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Bible readings (7)
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An organisation's more extreme members (7,6)
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Silly fool (3)
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Sounds tremulous (7)
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First Russian tsar (4)
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Respect (6)
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Final phase (8)
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One might go off-piste (5)
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Very observant (5-4)
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Generous (9)
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Fixed (8)
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Coerce – a drongo (anag) (7)
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Typically French (6)
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Reveal (a secret) (3,2)
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One's on drugs (4)
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Person who must be obeyed? (3)