Cryptic crossword No 1,387
Wed 18 Oct 2023, set byLamppost
Special Instructions: An apposite number of clues have unconventional solutions that are connected by a theme to be found in another solution, which is undefined.
Across
- Commander-in-chief with ultimately easy job (5)
- Noise made by American in bed in excellent company (9)
- Snakes quietly concealed at first in middle of wood (7)
- Spiders scuttling on a chair? Setter's off! (7)
- Police divided by hard cuts (5)
- At end of event, ambassador streams film for rich people (3,3,3)
- Environmental change seen in records (3)
- A bishop's drunk (7)
- 'Action Man'? MP runs away (3)
- Shellfish in cartoon's crazy with love? (9)
- Logo redesigned around 'B' — for 'balloons' (5)
- Instrument Mexicans are really into, made by Africans originally (7)
- Crowds look after Powell (7)
- Vaguer and more skittish? (9)
- Say something with a touch of patriotism in drink to king (5)
Down
- Marco's suffering with no head for heights (4)
- People to harp on about (8)
- Colours edges (6)
- Jazz fan? Choose gold-backed mirrors (8)
- So far to see (2,4)
- Fugitives from El Salvador go south, crossing Central America (8)
- R.. r...rectifies (6)
- Disease regularly seen in onions now (4)
- Happiness from glimpse of childhood idol (5)
- Holes in ministry policy (5)
- Pub drinkers knocked back round for 'medication' (8)
- One about to attempt transformation (8)
- After too much Beaujolais, Earl's in his cups (8)
- In two minds about unfinished teacakes! (6)
- A nation partly Romanised (6)
- Public speaking encompassing defeat in game (6)
- With no time to add up mice (4)
- Yob with old home (4)
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