Cryptic crossword No 108
Sat 22 May 2021, set byQuince
Special Instructions: A semantic, original multitude / Claim unregulated imitations: / Ductile items unto marginalia!
Across
- Taking with a pinch of salt, ground spice and talc (9)
- Composer's sadness, after key change in coda (5)
- Discerning flyer I would read aloud (5-4)
- Cleft set in hospital ward is open (5)
- Starts Nintendo device, catching Tube westbound (6)
- Capricious creator, perhaps, of element in sandwich (8)
- Open the door to penniless salesperson at home (5,2)
- Hearty American rapper scrapping bass for adjacent notes (7)
- Optimising drunk topless punting at university (6,2)
- Wholesaler company at each end of road (6)
- Sunak on rotation representing islanders (5)
- Taunt snob violently with taser (4,5)
- Something to brush up before oral exam (5)
- Show respect out of congenial, camouflaged affection essentially (9)
Down
- Current Chancellor reversing, for example, a period of little growth? (3,3)
- Convention for audience, after lead characters in a play perform! (8)
- Disease outbreak restricting nine events (6)
- Footwear delivered by secure shipping company (4-3)
- Back in Ronan O'Gara's place in Spain (6)
- East-Asian native is embarrassed, quiet, and awkward at first (3,5)
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th in 5, at sixes and sevens — site of 1/7 wonders (4)
- Fan of nuts who, in Paris, tucked into salad leaves without egg (8)
- Occasionally diva's good as a villain (4)
- Prime Minister and princess entertaining nation (8)
- Geometrical line Tom Heap designed (7)
- Retreating kidney problems, after extreme infection in the same place (2,4)
- Resort Calcium and Copper with Nitrogen supplements (6)
- Coal smudged around old sewer (6)
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