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Card-playing group capture container for the young (6,3)

8 Bruce and Dicky with tofu (4,4)

Note central difficulty with food (4)

Time to put in bag a lot of money (5)

It’s most orderly to dine in the home (7) Stagger around rook with pig’s foot (7) Edges, black edges (5) Genuine regret after end of fight (4)

How the ark was illuminated? (8)

20 Pine, perhaps, being

always naive (9) 9 10 11 13

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Since changes, Cuba’s capital is picturesque (6) Emphasis of promoted copper, having succeeded (5) Bachelor, student mathematician, works on an organ (7)

4 Anything following cold is got by infection (6) Formal speakers left with novel rest cure (9)

One looking after babe in arms due for a change (9) Act for each model (7) 2 3 6 7 12 14 16 17

Time when most strikes occur (6) Colour up bright study? (6) Anchors on open heaths (5) 1 2 Set free (dogs) (7)

3 Holy book (5)

4 US singer of Baby One More Time (7,6) Old-fashioned boat with large wheels (6,7) Offensively indecent (7) Suddenly pitch forward (5)

Place where a train stops (7)

Small black raisin (7) Lesson of a story (5)

Search

(for talent) (5)

Sound of many voices talking at once (6) Men, women and children (6) 8 Clover-leafed

playing-card (4) 9 Heavy manufacture and trade (8) Having motherly feelings (8) Reflected sound (4) Scottish spirit made 13

from fermented grain (6) Talk or address given 15

to an audience (6) 17

___ Watson, actress who played Harry Potter’s 19

friend Hermione (4) ___ cooker, kitchen item (8) 20 Linked at the elbows (3,2,3) Milk-white precious stone (4) ___ Morissette, singer (6) Move in a circle (6) 5 10

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