Compel to be helpful (6)
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Across
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School reunion you can’t get out of your mind? (9)
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Being so captivated by Schumann (5)
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They lend two overlapping signs (9)
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Factor in a chap (5)
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Park official who won’t give up? (6)
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Half caught in large-scale outbreak (8)
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Incidental benefit of bringing fast bowlers back? (4-3)
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Run into wrong castle, looking embarrassed (7)
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Accurate, which this isn’t for Marianne (8)
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Foreign letter from boy a doctor accepted (6)
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House is plain, article not seen in it (5)
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Staff briefly enrage Norwegian city (9)
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Have no money, displaying spite (5)
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Showy flower in enclosure Monet’s reproduced (9)
Down
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Compel to be helpful (6)
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Partner and I ordered turtle (8)
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A person of great interest (6)
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Was still off the ground? (7)
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Reluctantly move across island for pet (6)
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Yellow fever? (8)
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CID’s erroneous record (4)
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For hypocrite, hard to get up to join in exercise (8)
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Unbelievably noisy about a fiddly task (4)
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Catholic church’s love stories (8)
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Conspirator’s device for making chart (7)
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Incredible – old wife is fat (6)
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Like loos to be abundant? (6)
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Approached in trembling wonder (4,2)

Crossword Information

Series
Cryptic
Number
29650
Date
24 March 2025
Setter
Vulcan
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