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1
a
Writer’s right to take liberties (6,7)
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8
a
Small lump, e.g. of butter (4)
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9
a
Signal that danger has passed (3,5)
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10
a
Unworldly academic’s dwelling? (5,5)
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12
a
Small quake (6)
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14
a
Roman emperor (6)
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15
a
Suspenseful (4-6)
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19
a
The ___ table (8)
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20
a
Cunning (4)
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21
a
Politically unscrupulous, as in The Prince (13)
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2
d
Consumer of plants and animals (8)
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3
d
Potato, say (5)
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4
d
Part of a book (7)
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5
d
Relative by marriage (2-3)
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6
d
Blow up (7)
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7
d
Show appreciation of (4)
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11
d
Tree which may have white or pink flowers (8)
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13
d
Masculine (7)
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14
d
Small, walled-off part of a room (7)
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16
d
Location of Lucknow and Bhopal (5)
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17
d
It gets wetter as it dries (5)
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18
d
Queen of the Olympian gods (4)