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A Hard Start

This one begins with a few difficult concepts.

A clever wordplay puzzle where one key word provides the 'hard start' for six common phrases. Keywords: themed crossword, wordplay, puns.

By PuzzledCross

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Across

1.Like a job quite unlike physical toil
6.Delegating, which can require some persuasion
7.The usual grind
10.Chamomile or peppermint, e.g.
11.Put on an act

Down

1.Its opera is a daytime drama
2.Formal debate that might be transcribed
3.An ordeal on Elm Street?
4.Left out, emotionally
5.Stretching discipline
8.Place to go on a spree
9.Difficult... and what can precede the concepts clued by the six longest entries

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