Cryptic crossword No 1,037
Thu 9 Mar 2023, set byLamppost
Special Instructions: See the oldest comment below.
Across
- A lot of fuss resulting from month in Latvian job? (9)
- Cross about ditch in front of house (5,3)
- Worker with pride — they might be seen down pit (3,5)
- Foe's other sword breaks (6,4)
- Maine city home to leader of lobster fishers (7)
- Owl flying close to the ground (3)
- See 17d
- Four aces Lendl smashed (7,5)
- Endless quagmire on Western Front (3)
- Make fully inactive! (7)
- Review magazine covers books about wrecks (6)
- Keeling over drunk aboard boat alongside French island (8,6)
- Links course had an interesting name originally (5)
- Something in the order of 27 x 17 (9)
Down
- Millions are ultimately exterminated by one heartless alien (5,4)
- Stone Age! (5)
- See 9
- See 12a
- See 9a
- King George, a German, creates artificial cave (6)
- Sort out messy, mixed-up wardrobe, eventually (4)
- Mythical sea creatures circling line (4,6)
- With hint of seam, setter takes wicket for duck (4)
- School seeking head/director (5)
- See 20a
- Futuristic entertainment served up in terrific show (3-2)
- Happy girl eating last of flapjack (5)
- Nice bed Juliett's found in crumbling northern hotel (4,7)
- Non-striker backs up without looking, essentially (4)
- Book of maps doesn't include Thailand? What a pity! (4)
- Criminal perhaps caught with a lot of grass (6)
- See 30a
- School in a garret regularly enthralled by material (4-1-4)
- Wife sick with panic about bill finally opening letter from taxman (5,4)
- See 26
- See 1
- See 27
- Something that is biting cold! (3)
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