Cryptic crossword No 1,028
Fri 3 Mar 2023, set byjuff
Special Instructions: New handle. (Amateur)
Across
- Mary uses alternate number for one in homeland (6,7)
- After the first runs of bad luck, you start to misspend everything that's coming to you, all at once (4,3)
- Ignoring Rand Paul's constituents, he might be filing for medicare (7)
- Hurry and turn after intersection (4)
- Is going in, taking a nap, and then creating an act of rebellion? (9)
- Yeah, right, maybe the way it was mailed had stamps initially? (7)
- Dwayne Johnson has one album--put it straight on! (7)
- Two setters curse, saying "darn" and "gosh" (3)
- Give free whatever-they-want for this group (7)
- Quietly acted in the interests of being ready (7)
- Strain to remember: At the start, a double definition or charade might not have one (9)
- Smooch top and bottom lip (4)
- Soldier visiting Italy, travelling with quickness (7)
- Developing comedic routine (2,5)
- [See Instructions] (4,3,6)
Down
- Army's goal: to go north and arrest one drunk (7)
- Holland, along with Hiddleston, Hanks, and Hardy... they should be slapped (7)
- Like a presentation of vere low difficulte! (4)
- Arrived in haste, dodging end of pistol, not wanting to be shot (6,3)
- Itches and swelling, head to toe (5)
- Stunned as this initially right answer, if spelled backwards, gets marked wrong (10)
- Where do you find chutzpah to send back homemade meal? (7)
- Hoodlum shedding German anxiety (5)
- A tantric exercise around the bottom region (10)
- Former site demolished, including each facility (9)
- Country: X- Not applicable (5)
- Mike and I pierced nipples?? This is making even less sense (7)
- Spiny-flinging Lakitu still defeats Mario and Luigi at the second level (7)
- Plunder last of world powers having petroleum (7)
- Meeting with your lover? Go outside to spit (5)
- This contributes to restaurant's ambience (4)
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