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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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1 Musical works are so bad when piano involved (6) Animal eating last of your white meat (6) Snoop round English quarry (4) Moderate people won’t go to these (8)

Leant on a building in early life (8) Short skirt for score draw, say (4)

I’m back in swelling block (6)

Stick with 550 in light cylinder (6) Story that can be spun (4) Marine disturbed a lunatic (8)

They sell blooms from firs – lots! (8) Young herring is killed every now and again (4) Get to a bin another way (6) Spin eggs around junk (6)

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2 Tense but unbeatable (7) Some sunshine on fabric (5)

Teased non‑stop about sitcom (7,3,3) Recruits bleat about ship (6‑7)

Always a heavyweight football club (7) Perfume introduced in this century (5) Marconi broadcast to Spanish island (7) Flyer left ale, surprisingly (7) Spontaneous remark from mad libertine (2‑3) Laid into trendy group (5)

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