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dt 25595

any help appreciated with these last three very cryptic ones! 8a) high class oil mixed to make dresing (5) --O-I ? 10a) I had taken chance going round basin (5) --D-T and 1d) Charles followed Mary (4)...

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dt 25577

help appreciated with 2d 'pointedly spiteful and unpredictable' S-A-T-? 23d 'middle distance' G-R-- and 19d 'outdated Alf due to be replaced' and 13 d ARMOUR ---- ? thanks in advance

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dt 25571

difficulty with 7d) leave Cockney lady behind, she's a witness (6-2) P----- B- and 14 d) it is bound to help foreign traveller (6-4) - H-A------- (something 'belt' perhaps?)

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dt 25571

1a) Alloy with fictitious disease featured in scientific study (10) 18a On the island, first person with Georgia Brown having soup (12) any help appreciated thanks

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dt 25565

any help appreciated with last two 21a) 'penny off fruit for everyone' E-C-? 24a) 'some admire a versatile robber' R-A-E- - probably an anagram but can't see it! thanks also is 15a) VELA 'Star, say,...

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dt 25559

just can't get 1a 'on time to help with words' (6) ---m-t? and 2a 'man cried out endlessly' is this ERIC? (anagram) 19d 'bubble bath' (8) -a-u-m-? and is 25a LIKE FLAMES? thanks for any help -

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dt 25559

18a ' break for a little telepathy during ceremony' could this be RESPITE? 15d 'doubt whether philospher is Frenchman' (10) 13d 'pip's soft substance first, it yields a valuable oil' (10) is this...

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dt 25553

any help appreciated (can't get the logic with this new setter) 1d 'layer upon layer of food for a snack!(8) 8a 'in a neighbourly position (4-4) 10a 'burdensome amount of drudgery perhaps' (8)

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dt 25547

any help appreciated with this difficult one 26a 'unusually hot old-age lot to be welcomed without reservation' (3,2,3,4) 23 a 'grew forest timber' (8) 3d 'Violet and Saul removed optic' is this...

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dt 25541

any help appreciated with 10a 'special force repeatedly surround by a tree' (9) 11d 'isn't this ball round' (6-5) ------ D---E (something dance?) 14d removing role with acting abysmal' ---O-----G and...

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dt 25535

any help appreciated with 23d ' maps for sailor to bring up' A-L-- and 29a 'Big Saudi Arabian bones' ---A 5d 'sildier's with younger worker found it was vibrating' R-S-N-N- (resonant?)

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everyman 3201

only 6 to finish! 9a 'bombardier holding scourge finally gets physical - is this cannoneer? 8d 'fly aboard jet set's 'executive'' T---S- 2d 'trust criminal in bar?' (5) S-N-T 11a 'magistrate in sudden...

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everyman 3201

1d 'a pass intercepted by the French in game' -(8) could this be Lacrosse? 16 d 'large bird of prey perched on golf club tree' - eagle---d - name of a tree?

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Everyman 3201

26 a 'misleading clue embarrassed Hercule, initially slipping up' (3,7) could this be red herring? and why

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dt 25529

20 d H-S-A-D 'save him' 15 d R-C-E-T-R 'alternatively turning up at one cathedral or another' is that Rochester? why! 23 a N--A-E ' it isn't the goddess who'll write the music'

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