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1
a
As if! (3,6)
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8
a
Hired ___ – Peter Sellers, e.g. (4)
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9
a
The hat trade (9)
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10
a
Provider of wifi and babyccinos (4)
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13
a
Big Mama Thornton’s musical genre (5)
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15
a
Island home of the poets Alcaeus and Sappho (6)
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16
a
African animal-watching (6)
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17
a
Harvest, money or water (6)
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19
a
Past (6)
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20
a
Serbian currency (5)
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21
a
Amorphous, usually iridescent, mineral used as a gemstone (4)
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24
a
Board for riding on water (9)
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25
a
Stagger – Irish dance – length of material (4)
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26
a
Ne’er-do-well (9)
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2
d
Oleic, lactic or amino (4)
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3
d
One of Manx or Cornish descent, e.g. (4)
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4
d
Record of events year by year (6)
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5
d
The crumbling of a tooth (6)
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6
d
Palindromic soil machine (9)
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7
d
Pending (9)
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11
d
Golfing gear (4,5)
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12
d
They are not precise calculations (9)
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13
d
Overcome with ennui or tedium (5)
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14
d
Artsy (anag.) (5)
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18
d
Bordering on unseemly (6)
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19
d
Persian for ‘market’ (6)
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22
d
Undesirable flatmate (4)
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23
d
Tiny mosquito relative (4)
