Crossword

____ as sin (4)

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Across

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____ as sin (4)

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Tales – financial holdings (8)

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It means the same thing (7)

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Afresh (5)

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Meanwhile back at the ____ (5)

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Bumpy – odd? (6)

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It’s meant to make you buy (13)

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Country with two million lakes (6)

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Fauna’s counterpart (5)

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Do as a volcano may do (5)

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Lettuce type named for a geological feature (7)

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Ingress (8)

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Arouse – kerfuffle (4)

Down

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Closer to the water’s source (8)

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Articles of cotton etc (5)

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Moan comic unit (anag) (13)

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approx 28 grams (5)

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Going ____ fast (7)

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Word after ‘Simon’ or before ‘who?’ (4)

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News presenter – it stops the yacht (6)

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Not a friend – increasingly odd (8)

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Structure by which a train may cross a valley (7)

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Towering figure in Paris architecture (6)

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____ careful consideration (5)

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Patent – plain – public (5)

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Hereditary determinant of specified difference between individuals (4)