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1
a
Novel featuring Becky Sharp (6,4)
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7
a
Slanting type (7)
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8
a
List of contents (5)
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10
a
Gracious! (4)
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11
a
Four-line stanza (8)
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13
a
Comparatively dubious (6)
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15
a
Chew the fat (6)
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17
a
Bypass (4,4)
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18
a
Pen (inventor) (4)
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21
a
Period before an event (3-2)
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22
a
Italian dough balls (7)
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23
a
Days of yore (10)
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1
d
Medicine bottles (5)
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2
d
Like Voltaire’s Candide (4)
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3
d
Event with different but equally likely outcomes (4-2)
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4
d
Conflict or animosity (8)
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5
d
E.g. Tendulkar and Tagore (7)
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6
d
Protuberant vehicle part (4,6)
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9
d
Intolerance to foreigners (10)
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12
d
Ruined because of age (8)
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14
d
Fund (7)
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16
d
Pester – Wind in the Willows character (6)
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19
d
Bring upon oneself (5)
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20
d
Fizzy drink – drug – fuel (4)