Cryptic crossword No 1,297
Fri 18 Aug 2023, set byHaven
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Across
- Squandering removal of odds from buzzer damage (7)
- "Fits" describe long spasms in these terms (7)
- Minor tradition right for one who prays (8)
- Mobile g-geese invisible in pre-CGI rule of thumb (6,2,9)
- Painter with name left out of joint (4)
- Making partition from temporary loss of support for copper (10)
- See 11
- Topless sailor to sample something untoward (2,3,5)
- Send back magazine (4)
- Reception difficult for cockney mutton (4,9)
- Ends in youngster going west with less than others (8)
- See 21
- Overlooked redoing design (7)
Down
- Pleasing report of Sephardic heart at forefront of second city (7)
- Battle exhaustion gripped Winnie's number 2 (6)
- Popular chap keeping on with princess is part of the mix (10)
- Flower stands (4)
- Point of origin in Huddersfield perhaps? (4,4)
- Programme's conclusion in neon? (7)
- Make crazy call to Parisienne motorist to find a watery grave (5,6)
- Shifted even work measure in, say, call for fuel economy (4,6)
- Normal construction of lesser and more important route (8)
- Gross, having no time for wife, allegedly like Lemmon sometimes (7)
- Gathered bill holding First Minister to attempt uprising not complete (7)
- Support for view of daughter as addressee in receipt of endless good wishes (6)
- Roman keeps water for starters (4)
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