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Growth George Green · Saturday, 2 August 2025 · Ahhhh!
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Tool SpongeBob flips Krabby Patties with (7)
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Chat___, the AI from OpenAI (3)
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Geologic span longer than an era (3)
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1972 Winter Olympics host city in Japan (7)
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Kitchen tools that whip the ingredients (6)
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Thick Japanese noodles often slurped in anime (4)
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I think therefore _ __ (1,2)
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Commoner, in Brit or Crypto slang (4)
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Things Rihanna offered to share, ella, ella (9)
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Proteas country on cricket scoreboards (2)
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Board game AlphaGo mastered (2)
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Kitchen tool used to strain paste or wash vegetables (8)
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Computer scientist Alfred ___, known for work in compilers (3)
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It ___ a dark and stormy night (3)
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Shinzo, Japanese PM from 2012 to 2020 (3)
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Phrase seen on old East India Company sailing orders perhaps? (2,9)
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Where the Christmas stockings hang, traditionally (11)
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Porto ______, Brazil, known for Gaucho culture, Churrascos and more (6)
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Island, sometimes written as (4)
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What contestants do on The Great British ___ Bee (6)
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Flattened rice breakfast staple in Indore and Pune (4)
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Hostility; also inner male of a Jungian woman (6)
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Ottoman era name for Skopje (5)
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___ Vegas (3)
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Wire service founded in 1846, for short (2)
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Logician of the incompleteness theorems (5)
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MLB, NPB, KBO etc., collectively (3,8)
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A long ___ is about 2240 pounds (3)
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Kind of boot you just tug on (4,2)
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Winged horse that became a constellation (7)
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Big ___, McDonalds (3)
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Group of fish; also a hidden sandbank (5)
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Title holder, not the renter (5)
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Soup scooping kitchen implement (5)
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Sweet fruits often used to break the Ramadan fast (5)
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Spanish national rail operator (5)
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Soul, in Sanskrit (4)
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Without, in German (4)
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Arcade dance game 'In The Groove', briefly (3)
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Hiragana symbol that looks like a candy stick (3)