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Quiptic 1332 - 1 June 2025 - set by Hectence for the Guardian
Across
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Posh locality unexpectedly losing hotel appears unbothered (5,2,4)
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Trump’s no politician, taken in by message that’s false (3,4)
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Drink delicate cocktail left disregarded (4,3)
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Risk’s always in syndicate selling out (9)
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Stick around in boat? (5)
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Sample from microbrewery in jug (4)
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Perseveres, training sisters to break code (8,2)
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Discriminatory before judge, you ultimately played a risky game (10)
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Read aloud places to chill out (4)
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Insect mostly eating Thailand’s sacred flower (5)
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All right after slip negotiating reef (5-4)
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Setter invested in first-class air travel, including Cuba and the US (7)
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Autocrats switch rhetoric to business, working with rich men (7)
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New in stock, rudely find fault with cooking vessel (3-5,3)
Down
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Prepares tea set and evenly soaks the nettles for brewing (4,3,6,2)
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Vessel in painting capturing old voyager’s heart (5)
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Lister analysed disease, finally finding antiseptic (7)
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Set about suppressing arm spasms (7)
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Some cricket players being dull (8)
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Undo locks and drop barriers for fun? (3,4,4,4)
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Powerless when embargo’s lifted, breaking endless rules (6)
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CERN incorporates a very large underground chamber (6)
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Unusually quiet, son has problem (8)
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Start off spiral design encircling long column (6)
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Cancel tax set up by court that’s not correct (7)
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Shifting rodent found in damaged rice (7)
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Still flat, soprano’s gutted (4,2)
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Run with mounting speed and go over again (5)