Cryptic crossword No 1,514
Thu 21 Dec 2023, set byCatnip
Special Instructions: Each 12 is different and the correct 12 must be substituted into each clue before solving
Across
- Cook possibly follows 12 (5)
- Guy is receiving relief for digital services (9)
- Call for attention overwhelms every discoverer of 12 (6)
- 9 out of 12 backed wrestling that involves nothing spiteful (8)
- Carelessly I err with need for seasonal delivery method (8)
- Refuse to remove period dress (4)
- Taunted opponents after second Lancashire opener got a nick (7)
- Accommodates counter on board (7)
- Boots possibly provided new pennies for old store (4)
- Comic US novel on Director yet to be discovered (8)
- Willing crew to start hurling, possibly (4,4)
- Microwave possibly on fire (6)
- Glues that man advises terribly about (9)
- Santa's little helpers withdraw quietly from sidelines (5)
Down
- Sculptor to give greeting in ambassador's absence (9)
- Tilted furious incel surrounded by invitingly nubile dancers initially (8)
- Frugal types carrying large plates (7)
- Foolishly dating him without a time for date to conclude (8)
- Singer following 12 on air before fall (6)
- Working, for example, in pastry (5)
- Strain to produce copy, possibly (4)
- Drinks always in sack along with empty excesses (9)
- Misshape construction that may be viewed as bold (8)
- Former 12 to crack escape room? (8)
- Rudolf, a 12, reportedly understood every maltreatment (7)
- Bad actor with a cramp (6)
- Painful return of Greek 12 (4)
- Hope prisoner's location is concealed by 12 dallying (5)
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