Cryptic crossword No 1,386
Wed 18 Oct 2023, set byMadryn
Special Instructions: For a 60th Anniversary next month. Theme for nerds only.
Across
- In the beginning, inheritance intrigues outsiders (7)
- Go round circle after old theatre triumph (7)
- Endlessly following coffee (5)
- Byzantine era Tigris waters (9)
- 13 without returning beer, instead starts to oil long unused cycle (10)
- Flourish pole (4)
- Cause trouble while making waves? (4,3,4)
- Deep sleep welcome having taken in new memorial (11)
- Live performance is diabolical (4)
- Janitors' energy interrupts vehicle thieves (10)
- Doing what we are told, when around base that is (9)
- One agreement is perfect (5)
- Say not true about its topsy-turvy fate (7)
- Paddy spirit following Tipperary's first soldier (7)
Down
- The French turned up covered in blood, loads of it (6)
- Local wide-eyed about theatrical lead (6)
- 'Truss led me astray!' heard in Notting Hill (5,5)
- Small colour shift (5)
- Every font used frequently (4,5)
- Chat guy oddly unforthcoming (4)
- Conventional writer cuts off broadcast (8)
- Greet middle-easterner in American park? (8)
- Exposé gives vicar joy (10)
- Corruption after second half of soccer, yes, no doubt (9)
- Sponge cost nothing before shipment (8)
- Drinkers sneakily bribe Simon, not on! (8)
- Deviate around English facade (6)
- Refuge taken from queasy lummox (6)
- It happened the night before Newport evacuated (5)
- Informal greeting returned, assuming it sounds good (2-2)
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