Cryptic crossword No 1,516
Sat 23 Dec 2023, set byPotoroo
Special Instructions: "Take a Hint"
Across
- Small and lean support (5)
- Young girl clutching patchwork doll that's designed to keep kids safe (5,4)
- Mixture of primarily Asian seaweed eaten by millions (7)
- Drink ideal to be drunk with me? (7)
- Olive afloat in the drink? (9)
- Pig in front of sty that could be red (5)
- Cleaning station contains brewed elixirs - 10 left out (13)
- Criminal not agreeing with it is making a new deal (13)
- Chaos lovers rejected utopia originally (5)
- Can celeb ignoring an email's heading over time prevent spam with this? (9)
- At regular intervals, thank head of editing after stripped teenager is cut from film (3-4)
- Statement from a noble attending college (7)
- English record in danger? It's happened twice before now! (9)
- Anaesthetic to secure dropping temperature in the first place (5)
Down
- Glittering particles beginning to be seen around twilight, mostly (8)
- Wise men visiting one born by foot of manger - they provide visionary products! (9)
- Pull husband away from ruffian (3)
- Most of mulch in garden initially producing air (9)
- Sat back in plaid lederhosen (5)
- Break in, with type of burglar cutting through wire, perhaps, beneath vaults (11)
- Browser has fine interface (5)
- Look over wings of eider - one in a zoo? (6)
- Survey turtle again at sea (11)
- Servant at shelter nursing martial arts expert (9)
- Trouble during new bathroom's opening? Hurry to get cleaner (9)
- Adult turning up without money essentially a troublemaker (8)
- E-type car originally put in convoy (6)
- Change flag fellow removed (5)
- Minotaur's locale secret establishment maintains (5)
- Copper taking ecstasy and pot with this? (3)
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