Forward and back, witch's cat (12)
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Across
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Forward and back, witch's cat (12)
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Love, I managed, if in a roundabout way, to see an opera (7)
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Win a motorbike (7)
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East End theologian's kind of a sponge (5)
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Elderly relatives transfixed by Brussels body, one serving Europeans (8)
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What come and go, largely, in the main? (5,5)
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After end of jog, before start of ablutions, Everyman's smelling like old meat (4)
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Got up for wine (4)
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Grand won by tyrant after card game somewhere in Balkans (10)
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When you eat meatiest stews (8)
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Pooh's friend's time for bed (5)
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Lady on rock, evermore lethally emitting intoning, primarily? (7)
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Ordering à la carte, rejecting starters of andouillettes and aïoli, English getting something sweet (7)
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Trembling, gutted after comic genius dismisses second philosopher (12)
Down
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Six initially dubious etymologies dictionary recorded (7)
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Without fail, staggering blearily (8)
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River in Slavonic (4)
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Slips into conversation: 'Cistern jet's faulty' (10)
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A little fossil I acquired forming part of pelvis (5)
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Dance with bachelor, a pudding full of booze (3,4)
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Move fast, with bravery at last, daring to find source of spirit (6,6)
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'Top speed. Satisfied ...?' met with silence (4,8)
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Singer's festive song getting longer (6,4)
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Inert gas combusts, most hot (8)
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Bird in box leading to argument (7)
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Coaching with amateur wanting to boil dumplings (7)
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Key? Perhaps. Hole? So we're told (5)
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Shock as potty is overturned (4)