Cryptic crossword No 1,536
Thu 4 Jan 2024, set byPixlate
Special Instructions: All answers appear in Collins: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english
Across
- Running Adobe, install "VVVVVV"? (12)
- Jump starter for Subaru coupe out of energy (5)
- Pixlate's brother regularly scratched gilt iron in confusion (9)
- Half of my hot dog contains drug that's low-calorie (7)
- Tailor with fashionable coat missing ring (7)
- Concerned with one's nutrition worsening later in May (10)
- Second judge dismissed suspect (4)
- Way to transport water without using cap! (4)
- Will enthusiast prohibit instruction for postponement? (10)
- Ship I ran had to conceal killer in the water (7)
- Boat's captain with a fish you caught in palm (7)
- Salve largely right to be injected in as an antibiotic (9)
- Lying alongside one of Tolkien's creatures? (5)
- Delivery of a sofa encased in cement (12)
Down
- Fifty over-irritate one's eyes, primarily with onions (9)
- Opening of broken lift next to lever in plant (8)
- Stockings; unwrapped presents; tree (5)
- Allowed to disguise priest as bishop under cover (9)
- Overly nice to give away cent coin (6)
- Colour appears inverted in optical illusion (5)
- Sailor near mast served up porridge (6)
- Hydrogen monoxide beginning to slowly go stable (6)
- Mostly, that smoothie gets cold like the sea (9)
- Cracked nose following large impact on the face (9)
- Girl oddly worried about labrador becoming hairless? (8)
- Legendary woman raised a drink with me (6)
- Moves French novelist's missing page (6)
- Groove with old American (very old) (6)
- State neglects pub, it's a thing of the past (5)
- Head of Britain, formerly (5)
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