Guardian Cryptic #23947

2006-12-12

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1a

Number turn up with Putin (7)

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5a

Gourmet store with American composer (6)

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9a

Service makes cars go (8)

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10a

Playwright - there's many worse (6)

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12a

Dial tones answer call to account (4,3,5)

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15a

Last choice's not English, perhaps, for a pedant (10)

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17a

Ladder with one component short (3)

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19a

Singular royal pronoun (3)

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20a

Here president saw nothing amiss (10)

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22a

Series of notes by pianist creates a measure of upheaval (7,5)

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26a

A world ruler is its rocker (6)

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27a

Agreement with shrink (8)

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28a

Lying with bend in backbone (6)

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29a

Legal process when the case collapses (7)

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Down

1d

Theatrical party (4)

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2d

She voices a chronic complaint (4)

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3d

A town deprived of its head is likely to collapse (8)

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4d

Weird and ever poetic, that is (5)

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6d

Heartless meaning could be a riddle (6)

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7d

Angry about student sensuality? Clarify! (10)

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8d

Report omits nothing: after church, 9 take poison (10)

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11d

Arab leader said to cause agitation (6)

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13d

While company follows step by step, they proceed on course (5,5)

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14d

Help me claw off what's clinging and won't let me go (5,5)

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16d

Thus eyed, one is blissfully innocent (6)

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18d

E.C. Turner set up to be resolving into first principles (8)

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21d

Hot forged pound notes (6)

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23d

About romance and tying the knot - no hitch? (5)

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24d

Cost of flight to Laos, say (4)

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25d

Initial typeset without reversion (4)

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