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1a
Don’t beat about the bush! (3,2,3,5)
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8a
Burn (4)
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9a
Put your legs on either side of (8)
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10a
Balderdash (5-5)
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12a
Exhaustion after long-haul flight (3,3)
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14a
Friend known through writing (3,3)
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15a
Sauce-carrying transport on which easy money earnt? (5,5)
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19a
Whose course never did run smooth, according to Shakespeare? (4,4)
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20a
Dip biscuit in tea (4)
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21a
Nine days’ wonder (5,2,3,3)
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2d
Without accommodation (8)
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3d
Broth (anag) (5)
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4d
Vessel resembling a pipe-smoking, hat-wearing man (4,3)
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5d
Poems (anag) (5)
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6d
Spear (7)
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7d
Carbonated water (4)
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11d
Plantation (8)
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13d
Drunk – without pins? (7)
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14d
Money due (7)
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16d
Mayo seasoned with garlic (5)
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17d
Elongated region of high barometric pressure (5)
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18d
Verbal (4)