Cryptic crossword No 1,332
Sat 9 Sep 2023, set byClaw
Special Instructions: Nine across clues contain an extra word, to be removed before solving. These words can be arranged to provide the theme. The solution to this clue completes the puzzle's theme: Your edgy setter was able to bring a potty clue for this last number, though I suspect the chances are you were dazzled and unaware I was in your gaze (Y3,P8,C7,S3,F3,T3,L6,B3,Y3,W4,S7,S8,A2,M2) - letters are the first of each word
Across
- I make merry love in Ritz, wanting the ultimate (4)
- Virginia points blades (5)
- That's doctor of Jack Dee, oddly struck off (4)
- Explosively the heartless lass goes off - whatever! (6)
- One betrays one's principles, throwing can openers from upstairs out to the rubble (8)
- The majority of doors are secured by this wire outside faculty - enter (4,4)
- It directs pioneers' Tesla when coming back, say (6)
- What a cretin, easily convinced (7)
- Memory expert not swallowing new creative lie (7)
- Talk is potentially a bit brighter on vacation (6)
- Returning quiet to San Francisco State, never performs again (2-6)
- As a politician I am taken in by five revolutionary serial blackmailers (8)
- Powerful southern nationalist I'm to walk wearily around (6)
- People in residence (4)
- Petulant boy dramatically rejected sandwiches (5)
- Dislodge ponce prince (4)
Down
- Irishman's destroyed Scotsman's garment (4)
- Photograph established winner at musical statues? (8)
- Some behave staunchly in Iranian scriptures (6)
- Key gallery put in place (7)
- Opponents spin on dancing shoes, then take hour out for coffee (8)
- Bit on the side's gone cold, not originally but… (6)
- God of the sun goes down beneath fine lady's fingers (4)
- Place to view from the afternoon doesn't have the space to bring artist over (5)
- Course of antibiotics initially explorer enduring cold snubbed (5)
- Minister transformed waiting times? (8)
- Northern area absurdly to exist without oxygen - as this will (8)
- From below, short red light indicates finally lecturer's removed hitmen? (7)
- PPE wearing person performed on the dancefloor (I bet you looked good!) (6)
- Literary heroine asserts, "Ignore the introductions in academic works" (6)
- Hello sailors! Wow, most of you must come up! (4)
- State of Nebraska welcoming Arctic Monkeys primarily (4)
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