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Quiptic 1282 - 16 June 2024 - set by Picaroon for the Guardian
Across
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Reluctant to wear oddly cheesy apparel (7)
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Action receiving tennis serve – it’s struck out (7)
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Taking drugs in university, spill the beans (5)
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See chessman – king I check at first (9)
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Drivers suffer terribly after tea, you heard (10)
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Lazily covers for injured lady (4)
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Person watching Milanese football side, one asking questions (11)
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When playing, Tories charm musical director (11)
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Debauched fellow, one maybe kept in garden shed (4)
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A French agricultural worker touring Limousin’s capital, not Nice (10)
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Some resent our agency supplying group of escorts (9)
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I litigate about son’s problem (5)
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Disturbance ultimately beset Russian capital? (7)
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Federal agents in small Spielberg film part (7)
Down
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Firmly grasp batch of eggs (6)
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Old, drunk Noah entertains one Cincinnati resident? (6)
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Successful people, in an intoxicated state, shot rifles (4-6)
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Retail promotion includes black, expensive fur (5)
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Abandon sailor going north, or WWII British soldier (6,3)
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Spoils implement turned upside down (4)
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Refuse last of beer in barrel, in a low mood (4,4)
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Shorten by 91.44 cm area where ships are repaired (8)
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Principal welcomes current PR, seeing what people are saying (3-7)
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Charge for travelling through Sumatra, in Far East (5,4)
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One hugged by funny actress – most alarming! (8)
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Chicken also following a parrot (8)
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That man keeps equine animal and large badger (6)
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Affirm where fan of international cricket might be (6)
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Reasons to call plumber, we’re told, to get vegetables (5)
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Cry when upset, getting an onion or a tulip, say (4)