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Humanoid worker has poor ROM chip performance following hardware initiation (15)Across
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Humanoid worker has poor ROM chip performance following hardware initiation (15)
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Clean boy with absorbent pad (4,3)
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Either host of “I’m a Celebrity” (can’t remember one of them) expressed good manners (7)
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Slides glass windows out of window frame after AI mix-up (10)
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Very funny game (4)
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Good-for-nothing fish drops dead after head cut off (5)
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Subs wingers in nil-nil brawl; United carded—all kicking off over shin having bone exposed (4,4)
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Those with desire for money finish with profitable enterprises (8)
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A French word taking note of childish retort (2,3)
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Adapts diagnosis to cover mental health condition (4)
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Reportedly, it starts after keen artist loses it over Italian craftsman (10)
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Scratch card brought back from Count after applying friction with blunt instrument (7)
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Millions lost by most affluent runner in Africa (7)
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Nod by bending neck down and meet gal (15)
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Fraternity welcomes popular nun dropping habit of double entendre (9)
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Everyone’s getting it ‘king arse about face (5)
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Seat’s soft and level, flattened by buttocks (9)
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Plant zinnias regularly, to show sign of old age (6)
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Personal nude show inspired by goddess makes for chaotic scene (8)
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Naughty of you to start car in reverse (4)
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Renaissance comedy trope involving short horse ridden by even shorter strumpet (9)
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Shooter heard in draughts club? (5)
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Ironically very tiny captain leading the French, up to 100 climbing aboard (3,1,6)
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Look and listen: spades trump diamonds for one with bad deal? (4,5)
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Unbosom yourself with better belt (3,4,2)
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Softly and slowing down, taking time to note mistake (8)
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Sent to sleep by talk about dictionary (6)
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Pizza crust’s eaten last—not first, of course—in Italy (5)
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Asian media type dressed in Armani menswear (5)
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Ethnomusicological abstract about Japanese sport (4)
Straight-up, standard crossword
