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Quick 16931 - 10 August 2024 - for the Guardian
Across
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Essential part (4)
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Scheme to unfairly incriminate someone (6-2)
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One has no prospect of success (2-5)
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Sharp bend (5)
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Chilling (5)
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Quirk (6)
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Like an illness caused by e.g. stress (13)
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Lessens (6)
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Sound (5)
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Narcotic to which Marx likened religion (5)
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Competitor (7)
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Plan (8)
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Metallic element used to make brass (4)
Down
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Disdain (8)
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Escort (5)
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Kind of cat or butterfly (13)
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Material favoured by academics and farmers (5)
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Environment (7)
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Chess piece which can be promoted (4)
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Communicative faculty (6)
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Comprising various elements of different kinds (8)
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Rowdy and violent (7)
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Diminutive (6)
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Retiring (5)
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Inhabitant of Fallujah or Kirkuk (5)
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Scottish region – character in Friends (4)