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July 2026
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Open pastry, sweet or savoury, with a crimped edge (4)
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Clean with soap and water (4)
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Greek letter after nu (2)
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The pope, addressed more formally (7)
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Command that shows what changed between two git commits (4)
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Daily nutrient target on a flour sack, for short (3)
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Word in 'a piece ___ cake' (2)
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Round flatbread cooked on a very hot griddle (4)
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Ripped open (4)
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The wider printer's measure (2)
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Carry a plan out (2)
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Bangalore's famous OG food chain, with steaming hot rava idlis (3)
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A day when the listed fixtures are actually played (8)
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What a statistician maximises, in the trade's shorthand (3)
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Showing mercy (6)
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Sumptuous, as a fashion page might put it (4)
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Winter clock on the US west coast, briefly (3)
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Currently fashionable (2)
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Coldly, without a smile (5)
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What the batter wants cracked into a bowl (3)
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The moment the ball is first played (7)
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One unit of electrical resistance (3)
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Tokyo, while the shoguns ruled (3)
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The stars-and-stripes co-host, briefly (3)
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A packet's time to live, for short (3)
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A principle the table treats as already settled (5)
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A split that opens between old friends (4)
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The sport's biggest tournament, played every four years (5, 3)
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Along with (3)
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This instant, in an emergency-room shout (4)
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Hello, typed at the start of a message (2)
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Put a name forward (5)
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Number of teams at the finals, starting in 2026 (5, 5)
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Hazy and unreal, as a long night can feel (9)
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The governing body of world football (4)
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Sultanate whose capital is Muscat (4)
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Electrical resistance, counted in the plural (4)
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Co-host under a green, white and red flag (6)
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Letters that turn four into fourth (2)
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A night out, or the day you write it down (4)
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Clear-headed, even near dawn (5)
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A large deer with a heavy rack (3)
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The person a chant is aimed at (3)
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Obtained (3)
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For sale, in a small ad (2)
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England's football association, for short (2)
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Computer-science subject that teaches machines to learn from experience (2)