Cryptic crossword No 1,451
Sat 25 Nov 2023, set byNatrix
Special Instructions: Probably best with a cup of tea or coffee
Across
- Restricted fencing at open (6)
- Edward consumed a wild bear as an afternoon treat (8)
- Drover's two children taken in by hermits' leader (8)
- Ballad on Queen's hens (6)
- Negative about former Manx race nearby (4,2)
- Flower in cap used at Passover (7)
- STD caught on knees? (4)
- Fry, adding basil evenly, for Titania? (5)
- Penniless pensioners loudly interrrupted louts (4)
- Pick-your-own by old city in America? Sod off! (2,5)
- Alternate, as in "urinates backwards" (6)
- Rush round Ulster for pastry (6)
- Mark Henry, river judge, takes in four acres for Indian king (8)
- They're left with grim, stern man (8)
- Post no longer in reserve? (6)
Down
- Tart cook flourishing (8)
- Seaweed doesn't amaze Pip (4)
- Work, Natrix? Thanks - back to the usual time. (1,5)
- Disorder after memo turned up - sweet! (8)
- Reg turns in early with a hot drink (4,4)
- A yen after turkey platter (4)
- Maybe Jasper ruffled coat getting in roller (6)
- Top in poetry stakes, Yeats starts getting drunk (5)
- Musical society making fleeces? (5)
- Cheese or fruit? Special study starting examination (5)
- Dutch port going Red (8)
- Bake panic? Add salt. (8)
- Stubbs maybe married, but not amazed (6)
- Four possibly gather together, fishily. (6)
- Barristers' groups essentially criminally defensible (4)
- See 4
- Row from Windsor, if tired (4)
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