Crossword

Engaged; reserved (6,3)

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Across

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Engaged; reserved (6,3)

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Musical drama or comedy (5)

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Hovers; tantalises (7)

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Albumen (3-5)

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Fabricator; false witness (4)

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Salad or cooked vegetable (6)

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Good quality; saving grace (6)

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Woodwind instrument, originally the hautboy (4)

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Unusual; eccentric (8)

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Family name of the last Shahs of Iran (7)

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Go to pieces; perturbation (5)

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Enter into (anag) (9)

Down

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To which the term 'littoral' applies (3-5)

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Peculiarity; phenomenon (6)

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Europe's highest active volcano (4)

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Conform with accepted behaviour; agree with (4,4,4)

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At an auction, the lowest acceptable bid (7,5)

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Suffer a bad defeat; fall heavily (4,1,7)

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Western headgear? (3-6,3)

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Lateral spread of a bird or aircraft (8)

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Site of A-bomb testing; explosive swimsuit! (6)

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Roman satyr-like deity (4)