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Chandana Spares Trees · Saturday, 11 July 2026 · Ahhhh!
July 2026
Saturday,
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Steel tank with a microscopic workforce (10)
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Japanese cousin of the tiffin box (5)
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Not yours, not mine, but both (3)
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'___ good as gold' (2)
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Photo ___ for the plant's grand opening (2)
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Green citrus squeezed over a plate of bhel (4)
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Christmas kissing plant, and a cousin of 37 Across (9)
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Space agency that flew yeast past the Moon in 2022 (4)
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Crème ___ la crème (2)
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Dairy co-op famous for its cheeky topical billboards (4)
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Engineered yeast line, or what you do to chai (6)
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Single cell that lives in a glass house (6)
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Grand Canyon State, on an envelope (2)
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Rested, as dough left to rise (3)
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It never ends, and starts 3.14 (2)
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Fathered, as a racehorse (5)
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Froth that climbs a fermenter at 3 a.m. (4)
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Tie up a boat, or Heathcliff's heath (4)
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Make your case, perhaps too loudly (5)
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Mysuru's fragrant timber, brewed tonight instead of felled (10)
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Smile from ear to ear (4)
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Hint delivered with a raised eyebrow (11)
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Extra hours on the night shift, for short (2)
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Where you come from, or what keeps a tree standing (5)
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The Slam that opens the tennis year, for short (2)
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A spoonful of yesterday's curd, saved to set today's (7)
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Jazz combo of three (4)
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Grain behind a dark, tangy loaf (3)
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Little ring of DNA that carries a borrowed gene into a cell (7)
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What microbes eat, or who covers the launch (5)
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What Gandhi marched to Dandi to make (4)
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Where frogs sit, on a lily pond (4)
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Protein that speeds a reaction and walks away unchanged (6)
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Foul air from a batch gone wrong (6)
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Soap ___: a drama with no lather (5)
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Swoosh or bitten apple, say (4)
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Glass stirrer on a lab bench (3)
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Back, in 'to and ___' (3)
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Aussie dollar, on a currency board (3)
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'___, shucks' (2)