Crossword

As if! (3,6)

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Across

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As if! (3,6)

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Hired ___ – Peter Sellers, e.g. (4)

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The hat trade (9)

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Provider of wifi and babyccinos (4)

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Big Mama Thornton’s musical genre (5)

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Island home of the poets Alcaeus and Sappho (6)

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African animal-watching (6)

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Harvest, money or water (6)

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Past (6)

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Serbian currency (5)

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Amorphous, usually iridescent, mineral used as a gemstone (4)

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Board for riding on water (9)

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Stagger – Irish dance – length of material (4)

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Ne’er-do-well (9)

Down

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Oleic, lactic or amino (4)

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One of Manx or Cornish descent, e.g. (4)

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Record of events year by year (6)

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The crumbling of a tooth (6)

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Palindromic soil machine (9)

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Pending (9)

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Golfing gear (4,5)

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They are not precise calculations (9)

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Overcome with ennui or tedium (5)

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Artsy (anag.) (5)

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Bordering on unseemly (6)

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Persian for ‘market’ (6)

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Undesirable flatmate (4)

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Tiny mosquito relative (4)