Crossword

Hotel vegetable? (5,7)

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Across

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Hotel vegetable? (5,7)

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Foretell from signs (5)

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Using more words than necessary (7)

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Herb (4)

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What in the US is called a sidewalk (8)

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Frantically busy (6)

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Buzz cut, bun or braids perhaps (6)

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Support and strengthen from below (8)

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Precious stone (4)

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Willingly fulfilling obligations (7)

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Taylor or bird? (5)

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Happy and significant occasion (3-6,3)

Down

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Kind and beautiful – like Gabriel, perhaps? (7)

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Man-eating giant (4)

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Warning (6)

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Canal boat crew bloke (8)

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Regained complete consciousness (5)

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Coat metal using current to transfer ions (12)

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Emergency motorway stopping area (4,8)

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Rail fire (anag) (3,5)

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Very accurate copy (7)

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Flower – colour (6)

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Old-fashioned – accompanied romantically (5)

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Operator (4)