1 Stringed instrument (4)
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Quick 16970 - 25 September 2024 - for the Guardian
Across
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Shake It Off singer (6,5)
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Surrender (4)
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Male evening dress (8)
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Armed robbery (5-2)
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Small shoot from a plant (5)
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Nemesis of Skeletor – muscular fellow (2-3)
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Representative of a monarch in another country (7)
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Extemporiser (2-6)
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Suddenly change direction (4)
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Coward (6-5)
Down
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Stringed instrument (4)
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Put in order (4,3)
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Savoury jelly (5)
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Devoted follower (8)
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At an unspecified time in the recent past (3,5,3)
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Mixed literary genre (11)
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S-shaped bone (8)
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E.g. a bacterium (7)
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Head of a religious order (5)
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Farewell – depressed area (4)