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2649: Shut up shop

issue 13 April 2024

The unclued lights (three pairs and two individually and two of which are of two words) are now of a kind.

        Across

   1    Spice rack item revealed by horse and page (3,4)

11    Plenty of space, we’re told, for nursing with a head cold (6)

12    Deserts featuring brown palms (7)

14    Nasty creature in the presidential car! (5)

15    Cold – it’s good wearing a hat! (5)

16    Chap stops Conservative speculation (6)

19    A nice mild rum is restorative (9)

21    Worried escort carrying egg on two-wheeler (7)

24    Down with these folk who frustrate turning northwestward (9)

26    Han Solo and me arranged house-buyers’ advances (4,5)

29    Returning to knight for rice dish (7)

30    One song by new Christian (9)

32    Know French right away, when arriving at Eastern département (6)

33    Mean one ’n’ tenpence (6)

35    Alternative pieces, cycling, were large (5)

36    Father, say, in risky venture (5)

37    Mixed aloe vera, getting rid of very dark spots (7)

38    Go and fix (6)

39    Liberates partners inside France’s second largest prison (7)

40    Commercial appearing in capital’s radar antenna housings (7)

         Down

   2    Antiquated address to soldiers in Gulf state (5)

   3    Let us discuss our openings for game (4)

   4    Making it tremble and break easily (9)

   6    Sad, even when swapped (4,4)

   7    Arrive at junction in a flurry (6)

   8    Excuse old disguise (10)

   9    Indian cricketer, Farouk, is a road constructor (8)

10    On board, having rotten seats (7)

13    Netflix drama at PH (3,5)

20    Getting excited about lawn treatment? (8)

22    Penny felt bitter and showed it! (9)

23    Good eater drunk more vino (8)

25    Batty said head was creative (3,5)

28    Three times for the choirboy (6)

29    Lone cowboy is Ibrox footballer? (6)

34    Some petty point in the proofs? (4)

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