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Hailong Dao
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The simplest counter-example I know is the following: Hartshorne showed that if $k$ has positive characteristic, $k[s^4, s^3t, st^3,t^4]$ (which will be $X_{red}$) is a set-theoretic complete intersection (which will be $X$). The former is well-known to be not CM (cheapest proof: $s^4,t^4$ form a s.o.p but not a regular sequence).

There are more examples of projective curves which are set-theoretic c.i. (you can find quite a few papers). Among them the ones which are not arithmetically CM give counter examples via taking the affine cone.

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