Cryptic crossword No 1,088
Sun 2 Apr 2023, set byyogdaws
Special Instructions: Clues to thematic solutions lack a definition. Two further solutions hint at the theme's full extent.
Across
- Leader of Zimbabwe has sex with that woman (6)
- Chief of governors (8)
- Singleton enters central Barking (8)
- Alternative to nitrogen: splitting helium, say (6)
- 1 - 1/3 + 1 + 1 - 1/3 might make you cry (5)
- Many letters of support after alphorns cut by half (8)
- A show for all, as written in bad French (7)
- Fixed bottom parts of mandolin with blunted and broken scalpel? (2,5)
- Unidentified western qanun discovered, with unfinished letter, on 1st of December (8)
- Base of yehu felt wrong (5)
- Breaking the law gets you a fortune! (6)
- ‘Charm’ is a different word for this (8)
- Forced to go to central Kent church as punishment? (8)
- There’s nothing in Spain, unfortunately (6)
Down
- French wine contains crude oil! (6)
- At the edge of the pitch, put some boots on (5)
- Knock over small kind of drum, impaling top of ipu, after dropping some euphoniums (7)
- Axes cut and refine (9)
- Turn empty gun over (4)
- Furious playing of the final pieces for recorder and whistle, in effect, heartlessly (8)
- Injury caused by tossing a coin (9)
- A little bit like the first dog in space (9)
- Make contact with Citroen? (9)
- Britain’s inspired two French articles on Uganda’s capital (8)
- Opposed law covering part of nadaswaram, say? The opposite (7)
- Cruise to Malta (6)
- ‘Jew’s-harp over-rated’ reveals Marx brother (5)
- Dictator’s riches (4)
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