Cryptic crossword No 1,295
Wed 16 Aug 2023, set byjuff
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Special Instructions: Trying something different with the grid... Two-letter entries are unclued and should be ignored.
Across
- Major event every autumn (fall) is back, ready to explode (5,6,4)
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- Proselytizer of electric vehicle having to walk back is ultimately despondent (10)
- Wearing a penguin suit, Oscar left to close a window (1,3)
- Fit piece of furniture, if top is removed (4)
- Benatar's battlefield with what happens there in the fairgrounds?? (4,3,3)
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- Dessert made using bit of lemon with nut coating (4)
- Snotty bingo champ discovered in English city (10)
- Militiaman's grade-A drum-playing (5,5)
- After the first time, cliché becomes custom (4)
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- Fantasy creature that L. Frank Baum invented to put in writing two times and no more (4)
- Becomes comfortable enough with to drink a lot of drinks (two): the first served without last drop of amaretto, and the second served without whiskey (4,4,2)
- Some work invested into Winnie the Pooh's house, possibly getting outdoor seating? (4,6)
- Large amount of dialogue delivered onstage (4)
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- Predict Woods almost had zero wins (10)
- Australian Animals exhibit in science museum (4)
- Sucker's page, back-to-front (4)
- Pair of engineers stuck out on a limb, kinda made chicken parmesan, maybe? (6,4)
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- Increasingly bizarre anthem is "What It's All About" (6,9)
Down
- Start to play pool with fleet-footed, strong alien that's spotted near the hotel lobby (9,6)
- A madam briefly had held large fuse (10)
- Unregistered meat from Guadalajara that's sticky? (4)
- Emotion you get from bit of fly fishing? (7)
- One with pouch containing large caramel (4)
- Here's how it starts: I dream of rain, but leave with wine (6,4)
- Exhausted, I catnapped a little, face down, to get help for an upset stomach (7)
- A game about movie trivia that needs no equipment to be played briefly, in 360 minutes (3,7)
- Actor initially gets voice-over work in "Say You Will," possibly (4)
- Almost more than enough fruit in, say... one and a half ounces? That's highly unlikely (7,8)
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- Salerno is somewhere in LA? (3,7)
- Islands off the coast of NC or OR? (Or possibly, it's BS?!) (5,5)
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- I'd retreat quarter-mile in long walk, but this might pick me up without anyone knowing (6,4)
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- Gets nearly there, limited by fuel (7)
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- Dusty Springfield's debut at south side of country club had an emotional reaction (7)
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- Magritte, who made art about New England (4)
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- Motorcade transporting mammal (4)
- Cheese that's made backwards (4)
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