Level 1357 Solution
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DIMINUENDO
- Faint suggestion for audience becoming less loud
- Inane insinuation voiced increasingly quietly
- Obscure allusion picked up, getting harder to pick up
- Instruction to make less noise in bars
- Musical instruction gets unintelligent one undone, confused
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PROTESTED
- Voiced one's opposition
- Expressed opposition through action or words
- Kicked
- Professional put through paces showed dissent
- In favour of having been tried, but complained
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GRATEFULLY
- With thanks.
- *Shred every last bit of in the kitchen?
7.
CHECKMATE
- Grandmaster's last word ... and what the last word in 17-, 24-, 36- and 52-Across can be
- Carefully review a crew member's work?
- Last word in a cerebral game
- Board finish
- Game-ending declaration
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STORMY
- Tempestuous
- Tumultuous
- Turbulent
- Inclement
- Far from calm
Down
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MERINGUE
- Pie topping
- Lemon pie topping
- Frothy pie topping
- Frothy stuff
- Lemon ___ pie
4.
ASYMMETRY
- Difference between two sides
- Feature of much modern architecture
- 1984 movie with a 100% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with 'The'
- Feature of this puzzle that's "fixed" by a literal reading of four squares
- Imbalance between two sides
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PACKETS
- Sugar servings at a coffee bar
- Sugar servings
- Couriers' deliveries
- Loads of tin vessels
- Takeout ketchup, usually
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