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Speedy 1299 - 23 August 2020 - for the Guardian
Across
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Driver and keeper of an elephant (6)
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Religious house (6)
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Arm or leg (4)
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Double entendre (8)
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Slender spear of the Bantu (7)
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Siliceous rock often occurring as flint nodules in chalk (5)
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Cant; vernacular (5)
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Male species of small deer (7)
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Control strictly, from a term in dressage (4,4)
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Racing sled for one or two people (4)
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Cause to be loved or esteemed (6)
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Greek god of darkness: Antarctic volcano (6)
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Move a plane on a runway pre-takeoff (4)
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Extremely physically flexible (6-7)
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Hit Alec (anag) (7)
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Express a view (5)
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Grasp the nettle (4,3,6)
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-------- Chopin, Polish composer in France (8)
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Non-commissioned officer in the armed forces (8)
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John Ronald Reuel -------, fantasy writer (7)
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Island off the west coast of Italy, south of Naples (5)
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Overabundance (4)