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| 1. A cat gets cross in a river |
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| 2. A flower found in the llama zone (6) |
| 1. | Fodder illama zone sounds offbeat |
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| 3. A jungle that's cut down regularly? |
| 1. | Very innovative | | 2. | Good, but a point deducted for being one of so many clues starting with A |
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| 4. A limited network joined before working for banker |
| 1. | Not so convincing surface |
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| 6. A puzzle almost completed on website |
| 1. | Very smooth | | 2. | Neat. Should be there or thereabouts. | | 3. | neat, but a bit disappointing to use both A and ON |
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| 11. Aggressive woman from Central Brazil wearing diamonds heartily (6) AM[AZ]ON |
| 1. | Heartily doesn't work for me |
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| 13. At a loss for words editor's quit working for Virago |
| 1. | I like this a lot – well done |
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| 14. Atlas has moan about changing into a strong woman |
| 1. | Like, but I have a problem with into: it goes with changing, but changing applies only to moan, which on its own is not changing into amazon |
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| 18. Flower delivery service? |
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| 21. Forceful woman makes a chap eat nothing without hesitation. |
| 1. | eat cannot be containment indicator |
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| 29. Multinational e-commerce operation Bezos got running, essentially |
| 1. | not a fan of essentially, does it really mean that? |
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| 39. Stunned to see journalist expelled for working in forested region |
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| 41. Virago sent back section of Spinoza manuscript |
| 1. | Nice indeed. I think a 'ref. Virago press' in the explanation may have helped some solvers. Points here. |
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| 42. Who’ll deliver book of maps within a day? |
| 1. | Nice, though I'd prefer 'what' to 'who' so that cryptically it's 'Which word is AZ in A MON?', and what is OK for a company. |
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| 43. Woman with slashed bust seen around central Brazil? (6) |
| 1. | An excellent & lit. No justice if it is not on the podium. | | 2. | I suppose &lit with a double def might be a thing, though you haven't indicated that's what you meant – have you just muddled them up? |
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