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Rent pair out to a reptile (8) What a baker must use to make bread (4)

Engineers have a couple to fix (6) Complain about alien, but not wholesale (6)

Party animal (4)

Points to reporters only getting coffee (8)

Blame din for breaking bone (8) Stop sending mail (4) Proust off in a daze (6) Daughter threw a cone at a cleric (6)

Borrowed money when single, say (4)

Listener calls for some jewellery (8)

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Opt for school vote (6) Wandered after artist, back as ordered (8)

Small pears turned out to be thin (6)

Catch parent out (6)

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Bear is suffering from disease (6)

Built me a pitch, being forceful (8) Undertaking carried out in coat (6)

Sell to spoilt brat with hesitation (6)

Last to finish at the river (6) Cadge from a cleaner (6) Bet in old money (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS Aquatic reptile (8) Unit of bread (4) Mend (6)

Type of selling (6) Male deer (4)

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Pole (4) Semi-conscious state (6) Clergyman (6)

Lend (4) Jewellery item (8)

DOWN Choose (6) Organised (8) Widely scattered (6) Ensnare (6) Opening (4) Hydrophobia (6) Insistent (8) Deed (6) Haggle (6) Suffer (6) Marine animal (6) Flat-bottomed boat (4) Two sets of clues but the answers are the same ANSWERS TOMORROW

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