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Speedy 1297 - 9 August 2020 - for the Guardian
Across
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Ancient Briton (4)
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Iconic fossil of the Jurassic (8)
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Unbeatable foe: ruin (7)
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The modern Persian language (5)
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Dickens novel (1855-57) (6,6)
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German POW camp of WWII (6)
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Andre ------, eight-time tennis Grand Slam winner (6)
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Say something that is then contradicted by untimely events (5,3,4)
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Mature, prosper (5)
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Sets of nine items (7)
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Place where secret messages, etc, may be left (4,4)
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The ----, English wetland area abutting The Wash (4)
Down
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Naive or unreasonably optimistic character, after Voltaire's Candide pedant (8)
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Celestial body (5)
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Jewish outpost besieged by Romans in 72 AD (6)
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In a strong position (2,4,6)
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Completely wrecked; devastated (2,5)
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---- Thorvaldsson, 10th century explorer, the first European to settle in Iceland (4)
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Sarcastic oxymoron meaning difficult or impossible to understand (2,5,2,3)
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Greek god of wine, fertility and drama (8)
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Classical jar for storing liquids (7)
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Eldest of the three Gorgon sisters (6)
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Not perfectly round (5)
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In the same place (used when citing a reference) (4)