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Quiptic 1142 - 4 October 2021 - set by Matilda for the Guardian
Across
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Spreadsheet: advanced and superb (9)
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Look into Mafia to come back and thrive (5)
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Toy filled with wrong fuel, sadly (9)
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Politician covered in sauce rises suddenly (5)
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Small, small person may be cross (6)
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Came to sorry end, swallowing pigment (8)
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Impressed? Not me! Rubbish web designers (7)
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Determined individual finally loses heart (7)
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Needed some paper in colour (8)
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Make a friendly gesture, we're told, to obtain pet (4,2)
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This could be the apple of the teacher's eye? (5)
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Mother looks over home publications (9)
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Not as many women get into free running (5)
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Highly obvious to vocalise about pick of the bunch (9)
Down
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Send off old wine (6)
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Romeo forced out and cast aside (8)
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Dig starters of parsnip, liver and octopus — yuck! (6)
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Nation's wicked slandering — no sir! (7)
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Article abolishing right of secular organisation (6)
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Finish close second in race (8)
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Give out when time's up (4)
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Thought supreme deity initially mad (8)
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Some offer a reward — definitely not well done! (4)
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Proves company is involved in fraudulent activities (8)
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Get on with five in a whirl? (7)
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How's your father upholding higher education for all? (6)
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Wreak havoc over drug being less potent (6)
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Very little money provided by New York to support a writer (1,5)