Crossword

Deputy leader (4,9)

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Across

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Deputy leader (4,9)

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Polite term (9)

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Type of fish (3)

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Ruminant (4)

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Game played with bat and ball (8)

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Explosive device (by which to be hoist?) (6)

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Completely (2,4)

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Journalist (8)

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Cast off (4)

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Hostelry (3)

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Design cut into a surface (9)

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Very latest (2-2-3-6)

Down

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Contend (3)

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Small wooded area (5)

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Request or supplication (4)

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Newspaper employee (6)

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Close at hand (8)

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Spanish painter (2,5)

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Doorway (9)

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French actor (9)

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Salacious (8)

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Arrangement of hair in a bun (7)

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Scanty (6)

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Short poem (5)

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Hector Hugh Munro - kind of monkey (4)

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Expression of surprise (3)