Primarily squalid purveyor, illicit vendor? (4)
Primarily squalid purveyor, illicit vendor? (4)
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Primarily squalid purveyor, illicit vendor? (4)
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Tiny amount of drink – damn! (4)
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Mustard on a roll, for a song (6,9)
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A bounder, the writer describing European universities etc (7)
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Mo in no need of barista (7)
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Improved health for hubby? (5,4)
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Counterpart of red – and of black? (5)
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Scrap fairy tale with king at the end becoming … dead (5)
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What boots may be in a different case? (5,4)
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How a list of Henry’s wives goes, excluding the final queen, OK? (2,2,3)
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Component of lathe is twitching? I’m sceptical (7)
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Understood, in a phrase, how a lip-reader describes her work (1,3,4,3,4)
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Location of unpleasantness on edge of eyelid? (4)
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Falling over, run into swarm (4)
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I reopened bananas and showed the way (9)
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Victor is constant, on time, showing guts (7)
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Gather intel from – scare the pants off? (7)
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Catches son, acts the scold (5)
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Monday rattled one that’s full of beans (6)
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Place – place to drive from – place to park it? (6)
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Dubious treat, the eel’s dressed ‘skin’ (11)
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Everyman’s given a drink at 4; from the outset, Everyman’s making things up (11)
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One who wrote amusing novels such as
Emma
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Detective Inspector puts up with absence of intelligence (6)
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Heavy criticism, lawyers blow a fuse (7)
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Number-cruncher: fastidious, proverbially patient type accepting unknown number (7)
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Cockney’s cooking – then … ? (6)
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… piece of snipe with another bird (5)
Crossword Information
Series
Everyman
Number
4076
Date
1 December 2024
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