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Sunday Toughie 55 (Hints)

Sunday Toughie No 55 by Robyn

Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee

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Robyn gets the Sunday Toughie difficulty just about right for me, grid filled in time for a good seven hours kip and the trickier parsings seemed to sort themselves out in my dreams. A biblical moaner, several middle easterners, a musical way of playing and the musical based on Puccini’s La Bohème all make an appearance.
We also have a repeat of an answer in yesterday’s prize but clued in a slightly more risque way. An equally risque definition of hell too…

14a and 14d clues today and I have hinted half.

Here we go…

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