Cryptic crossword No 139
Fri 30 Jul 2021, set byLaguna
Special Instructions: Marking the recent 50th anniversary of one of my favourite things!
Across
- Laguna's Ultimate Mark Twain Lines: A Compilation (3,1,4)
- Banker's severe virus partially returned (5)
- Process first impressions of Canadian artist - she’s extraordinary (4)
- A frolic in a deplorably lax situation? (10)
- Young non-drinker taken for first drop of liquor in French city centre (6)
- Records show mischievous wives brought to the guillotine? (8)
- They're rarely seen in that girl's hands, we're told (7)
- Soldier displays junk - extremely shocking at first (7)
- The French say cheese takes time in final stage, perhaps (4,4)
- Band receives Joni's last correspondence (6)
- Dreamer set out to make improved version of classic album? (10)
- Linked by some across clues...and down (4)
- Fresh overture from Richard interrupts my point (5)
- One scored from sidelines, after shaking lethargy (8)
Down
- Not the first to debate a lyric's basic meaning! (8)
- Get rid of Kindle (4)
- Unsophisticated cowboy drops over for early part of evening (6)
- Brando's howl before the end of Streetcar is extraordinary! (7)
- Trouble removing top before kinky act? Better having a three-way (8)
- Endure the Christmas season and never row? It can be arranged (10)
- Midge bites stray in Paddington, say (6)
- Metal rivet breaks...it can happen at 88 mph! (4,6)
- Dealer turning up to outwit member of the police (8)
- Paddy tours, but misguidedly (8)
- Shun official rule by dictator (7)
- Get back at noon to replace artist in fair (6)
- Sells picked up bike parts (6)
- Troubadour's heart poured onto the backs of cartoon coasters in bars (4)
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