With choppers battle-ready? (5,2,3,5)
With choppers battle-ready? (5,2,3,5)
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With choppers battle-ready? (5,2,3,5)
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Excellent: Miss ‘d’Urberville’ and love to return, finding border region (7)
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Mouldy Frenchman tears up when cleaned up (7)
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Is the writer to be sold, my friend? (5)
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Poorly raised oaf, as previously discussed (9)
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Evil doctor to tattoo most of infants? Covering bottoms up (3,5,2,4)
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With endless fury, aunt tasted a dodgy, unhealthy ingredient (11,3)
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Fixer-up ran over to stable? No (9)
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Principally relative association that indicates odds? (5)
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Spanish maybe brainier – almost devious (7)
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Acrobat, one who in 60s was iconic (7)
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Is Douglas on a peninsula … ? (2,3,2,2,6)
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A cow’s audible ‘Goodbye’ (5)
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Offer ring to one who’s not intended? (7)
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Spot Mark and point … (3,3,3)
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Poo-poos a kabuki’s characters in Japanese port (5)
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Spooner’s advice to
Great Expectations
lad considering using pawnbroker where money may be found
(3,6)
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Judgment in hearing’s parallel (5)
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Everyman practises hygiene, you say? Baloney! (7)
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In this place, heartless simple tune that’s passed down (8)
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Pests playing sitar – with tin whistler at the end (9)
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Calm rests for hospital staff (9)
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One shooting around outstripped hare, backing over – primarily, this one’s charged to protect (8)
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Source of warmth, lad’s pronounced grin (7)
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Opposing bulk of US territory, Caribbean island (7)
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What may you get from chavs, ignobly? (1-4)
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New England gentleman getting up, out of bed (5)
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Cockney mob loudly rowed (5)
Crossword Information
Series
Everyman
Number
4096
Date
20 April 2025
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