Crossword

Nitwit (5,5)

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Across

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Nitwit (5,5)

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Remove the fastenings from (7)

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Smallish, colourful songbird (5)

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Twilight (4)

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Bright red mineral – ran cabin (anag.) (8)

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Attractive house, in adspeak (3,3)

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Somnolent (6)

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Hallucinatory, altered state of mind (8)

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Language, source of ‘khaki’ and ‘purdah’ (4)

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Roughneck (5)

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Complicated geometrical figure or pattern (7)

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Minuscule (5-5)

Down

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Dismisses (5)

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Pb (4)

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Affluent young banker, e.g. (6)

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Foot soldiers (8)

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Medieval weapon (7)

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Old-fashioned person (5-5)

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Loud commotion (5-5)

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Erode (4,4)

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As salt is in water (7)

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Hearty laugh (6)

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Irritable (5)

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Roué (4)