Crossword Saturday

Where goats go to escape
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TSETSE
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HOSTELRY
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Good morning, hlvp, and thanks as always.

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ORACLE coracle-c
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WINTER in words
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ell
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Thanks hlvp, and hello all.

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hlvp
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Good day to you.

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ell
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negligee
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being
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grace
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bear
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hake
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undercoat
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unite
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LLAMA lama+l
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ell
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HANDSOME
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ABOUND
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ell
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eats
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shortcake
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thrice
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GARAGE garbage-b
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TALENT ale+TNT
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angle
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scythe
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bash
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hlvp
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Yesterday's Toughie. I'll just leave it here.

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elvish
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= American Civil War > anag
It's a really tough Elgar, so I doubt I'll be able to contribute much here
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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR anagram
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Idle
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American Civil War
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= an arm and a leg
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= Santa Barbara > backwards ARAB + RABAT, Can't work out Hospital / SAN ?
As usual parsing with Elgar can be "idiosyncratic"
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Ohio
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GRIND TO A HALT anagram
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beard
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YOSEMITE
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ell
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sherry
I have sussed it all, apart from 29a. Tough indeed, and I can't see a theme.
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LADY HOOD
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= John > King John / John = bog
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= angled > Ang Lee/d
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Toledo ? > told 0 with 'e' inserted. Never heard of that sword ?]
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