Don’t beat about the bush! (3,2,3,5)
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Don’t beat about the bush! (3,2,3,5)
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Burn (4)
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Put your legs on either side of (8)
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Balderdash (5-5)
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Exhaustion after long-haul flight (3,3)
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Friend known through writing (3,3)
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Sauce-carrying transport on which easy money earnt? (5,5)
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Whose course never did run smooth, according to Shakespeare? (4,4)
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Dip biscuit in tea (4)
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Nine days’ wonder (5,2,3,3)
Down
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Without accommodation (8)
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Broth (anag) (5)
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Vessel resembling a pipe-smoking, hat-wearing man (4,3)
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Poems (anag) (5)
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Spear (7)
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Carbonated water (4)
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Plantation (8)
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Drunk – without pins? (7)
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Money due (7)
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Mayo seasoned with garlic (5)
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Elongated region of high barometric pressure (5)
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Verbal (4)

Crossword Information

Series
Quick
Number
17046
Date
23 December 2024
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