Cryptic crossword No 1,084
Sat 1 Apr 2023, set byPixlate
Special Instructions: All solutions can be found in Collins, 25A is a variant spelling
Across
- Lively direction of six movies' acts - I edited/cut E.T. (11)
- Tree quietly cut with one instrument, offloading tons (7)
- Stranger's trick in bar near university (7)
- No. 1 pigment in our ruined church near Rome (9)
- Journalist probing into whole plant (5)
- Finnish room making the "Norse Bee" an insect (5)
- She's willing to trial American brand of cereal (9)
- Common bear going around green without a lake (9)
- Revolting - a French tea's back in neck (5)
- Retired physicist assumes 1000 as figure (5)
- Position in contest; win and score (9)
- Pixlate's in cot with calm deck (7)
- Like one shooting nearby? (2,5)
- “Volcano Nine” almost silently hiding bits of hot, unpleasant ash (11)
Down
- Latin proverb: "O! Vex pupil with ox!" - Ovid in Metamorphosis (3,6,3,3)
- Give very small area iron fencing that hurts (9)
- One's following a fellow tucking into pound cake (9)
- Expression of mass in bulk (5)
- Anvil's hot and cold, half-used (5)
- Radiant root in medicinal mixture (15)
- Vertical channels in carbon-deficient trees (6)
- Not fine to confuse fool (6)
- Grey and miserable, I shrivel under sun (9)
- Lay down vessel in a North American mountain range (9)
- Strip originated back in nude, regularly (6)
- Hibiscus's petal, the anther's part (6)
- Small business barely gets French composer (5)
- Volume in initially icy cask of wine (5)
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