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Crossword roundup: goodbye Paxo, hello cyan

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Alan Connor welcomes a colour to the language in his pick of the best cryptic clues

Are you interested in how the fleshy, fallible human mind can persist with a belief despite the piling-on of evidence to the contrary?

11d Justicefollowed byex-PMmanyaredisputingInterrogator required (6,6)

10ac/24ac Ultimately, England home before their postcards: relativeshide (8)

22d Some fancy a nice greenish blue (4)

... this particular colour circle is not much use to printers, or to those who mix their colours through the cathode-ray tube, or to those who work the paint-mixing machines in hardware shops. The printers' primaries are yellow, cyan, magenta and black; televisions mix red, green and blue light; the colour circle of commercial paints has four effective primaries in red, yellow, blue and green.

5d Get upsetaboutsufferingrightshowerduringpreparation for the classroom (7,8)

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