Cryptic crossword No 1,518
Sun 24 Dec 2023, set byPotoroo
Special Instructions: "The Grand Finale" | All solutions can be found in Chambers
Across
- Girl opens jpeg, changing red part of athlete (7,6)
- Old distiller's ale beginning to muddle writer (7)
- Diving, head downward and swimming in a turn (7)
- Mop with daughter as husband's leaving (5)
- Lemur's baby briefly worried, stopped by cry from dove (9)
- Love books I collected originally from region of Egypt, perhaps (7)
- Birds hide in small island (7)
- Brewing a beer? It makes you drunk (7)
- Japanese carrying couch's edge held by twelve (7)
- Lasting mix of blue and red, largely (9)
- Portion of scallop on zucchini sauce (5)
- Container provided with old worm (7)
- Frosted design on window in church surrounded by finer swirling (3,4)
- Dancer back in army confined, accepting reprimand's beginning for dishonest behaviour (7-6)
Down
- Judge poem missing opening less well - might it be full of bad puns? (3,6)
- Prolonged discussion from Spooner's marvellous visitor (7)
- Exhausted employee covering crust with revolutionary spicy marinade (9)
- 6 left to drink noisily with bachelor in unpleasant part of town (5)
- Muscle car's first seen in Illinois and Iowa by you and me (7)
- Adult overcome by wine mostly becomes quiet (5)
- Fellow abducted by alien amphibian (3)
- Shock restaurant patron, perhaps, eating one eastern mixture of diced vegetables (10)
- Bloody penguin, initially lost, crosses north pole area to get home at last (10)
- Fool follows bishop wearing sensible old inquisitor's uniform (9)
- Extremely slim enemy beaten (9)
- Pretty anti-tank weapon? (1,6)
- Religious class allowed to enter gym that's full (7)
- Pull down trousers of good president day after retirement (5)
- Fight to get extremely tasty Irish potato dish (5)
- Thanks Jack for cap (3)
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