Painting outer parts of foyer enhances casino (6)
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Across
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Copper right to enter spot – it’s safe (6)
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Violet ladies’ underwear? Theodore trembled (8)
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Beef meat (6)
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Spilling the beans about women engaging in group sex (8)
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Guardian is not partisan, after editing (6,5)
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Cleaner in Post Office wearing fake ring (7)
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Little person from Warsaw one’s seen in a pond (7)
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Deadly creature – he’ll like war, possibly (6,5)
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Rumpus periodically follows media exercises (5-3)
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A Republican forbidding passion (6)
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Awful love rat entertaining one satirical Frenchman (8)
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Maybe bitter about odd parts of rugby jersey’s pattern? (6)
Down
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Painting outer parts of foyer enhances casino (6)
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Some achievement in whist, leading? You might blow it (3,7)
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Weed in nature I’d cultivated (8)
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E.g. envy about good job, one providing info for drivers (8)
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Split personality, perhaps, of actor in a shot (8)
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Leader of Tories, crude for Labour (4)
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Scoundrels perform leads in Gilbert and Sullivan (4)
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Loot left aboard for killjoy (10)
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Rubbish by a Conservative using spin (8)
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Run through outskirts of Rochdale on black car (8)
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Asian country’s king, in pain, sat awkwardly (8)
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Suspicious about the king’s call to arms (3,3)
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Wide boy and dignitaries turning up (4)
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Whiskery aquatic mammal in the deep lake (4)

Crossword Information

Series
Cryptic
Number
29489
Date
16 September 2024
Setter
Dynamo
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