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Various Erin Sims · Saturday, 16 August 2025 · Ahhhh!
August 2025
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Economic bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (5)
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Vinegar, auf Deutsch (5)
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What an AI is not, per book-prize eligibility debates (5,6)
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Take without permission; suitable (11)
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Guide; castrated male bovine (5)
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Cornell school for workplace relations, briefly (3)
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Underworld in Sumerian myth (3)
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Author of If and The Jungle Book (7)
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_____, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached (5)
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Actor Stephen of The Crying Game; Finch in V for Vendetta (3)
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Honorific before Gaga or Macbeth (4)
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Melbourne tennis Grand Slam, for short (2)
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Where the 2028 Summer Olympics will be held (2)
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About, seen as a prefix in email subjects (2)
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For which third umpires in Cricket use ball tracking to verify (3)
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Off topic detour in speech or writing (10)
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Bison a wandering in the Balkans (cryptic) (6)
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Lingua Franca of Pakistan (4)
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Room for old Greek? (cryptic, double meaning) (5)
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To die, to ___: Hamlet (5)
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Indian mathematician of Lilavati and a famous lemma (8)
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Break suddenly (7)
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Advocate of overseas dominion (11)
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Obama____; signed into law in 2010 (4)
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Tube for breathing while face down in the sea (7)
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Classical Athenian playwright of Medea and The Bacchae (9)
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Not moving (5)
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Islamic legal framework (6)
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Connected device realm, briefly (3)
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US grad school exam, for short (3)
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News org with a stylebook, for short (2)
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Adult, informally (5,2)
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Square meters measure it (4)
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Old-fashioned word for home (5)
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Vedic fire (4)
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Old Italian money (4)
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Point in Morse (3)
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Flair in the ring, given name (3)
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Rio Grande do ___ (3)
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Undergraduate degree in liberal arts (2)