DT Crossword - Friday

Where goats go to escape
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Hello and thanks, hlvp. Rain showers this afternoon.

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CHRISTMAS CARDS
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DECREPIT
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Hello FK. Cool and cloudless.

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH
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PICCALILLI
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REMAIN
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DEFECTED
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OVERLAP
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POPULARITY
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DISC
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UTOPIA
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Sunny, 6C

Going to go out on a limb with 1A
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= unflappability
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tabascoboy wrote: Fri May 07, 2021 6:49 am Sunny, 6C

Going to go out on a limb with 1A
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= unflappability
Nice going. I was trying to justify
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REFRIGERATIONS
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ALSO
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TIGHTROPE WALKER
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PENSIONS
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LOUNGE SUIT
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= betrayer
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= straighten
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= Adonis
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= utensil
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= usurper ?
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DIRECT
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HAIR
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= puds
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USURPER
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Thanks hlvp, no idea who the complier is but not even a vague idea about a single clue!
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Some hopeful guesses.

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THE WORD GO
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SORTED
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IN THE PEN
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If this is as I suspect an Elgar, then I might as well try to parse clues in Lithuanian!

Anyway, 4D, 5D fit with

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= Chatsworth House > anagram
and 8A if

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= otic
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NOT AT ISSUE
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THERES NO 1 IN TEAM
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= Être > (m)etre
3D is a new word to me, had to see if it was a word!
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= advowson
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TELLER
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12 & 13A
Actually scratch that, I misread pen for 'pan'...
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COME TO A FULL STOP
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OK

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= Charles Dickens
5D is almost right but actually
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in the can
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tabascoboy wrote: Fri May 07, 2021 10:00 am If this is as I suspect an Elgar, then I might as well try to parse clues in Lithuanian!

Anyway, 4D, 5D fit with

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= Chatsworth House > anagram
and 8A if

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= otic
It's by my mate Elgar.
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Globus wrote: Fri May 07, 2021 11:30 am It's by my mate Elgar.
As I thought then! Hope you are recovering well?
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Oi Globus, give us a lift!
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EMANATE
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= influxes
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= teller
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= enmesh
19 & 22A shot in the dark as can't parse
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= one size fits all ?
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