Cryptic crossword No 154
Thu 12 Aug 2021, set byGollum
Special Instructions: Even more than with Raider’s brilliant No 128 this one will not be to everyone’s taste…
Across
- Impetuously lying a bit - "Following Rashford? Not half!" (6)
- Leading wag gets into notes - journalist is duplicitous (3-5)
- Normal in the Home Counties, joke first 11 (5,3)
- It holds the heart of UKIP, with consumption of fare-dodging Farage (3-3)
- Lazy, coming from the Right, leading Etonian lout declares “I’m entitled” (name of Boris) (4,4)
- Cite as evidence a latter day Mussolini (6)
- Ultimately, Etonian twit suffers with impotence - can’t do it properly (11)
- Joins up with Coke? Back up inside (6)
- An oily MP shambolically used to be seen in London (8)
- Support overdose of rubbish, lacking point. (6)
- Small piece of fiction which I leave for an artist. (8)
- “Start smirking, Priti!” It is followed by something irrational, foul, loveless, gratuitously vicious… (8)
- Lovable mutt? Story about a donkey (6)
Down
- Niffy, takes a First in Classics and finds a Member of Parliament with occasional honoraria… (7)
- …unlucky? Prime the leaders of the Irish - tempt enmity (8)
- Why bonked bride lacks energy - cross… (6)
- …Catholic with love at heart? Talk’s cheap for when frigidity occurs (4,4)
- Dull “Dear Leader” in a tangle (6)
- Occupation of No 10 - dominancy, with Cummings in no longer (7)
- Chaotic flops, unable to measure (13)
- Intermittently take off after headless barbarian (2,3,3)
- Messily point me around Boris’ backside? “You scratch my back…” (8)
- Adulterated, laid back, sound of pleasure in bed (7)
- Lor! Inside heartless Carrie is what makes you fat (7)
- Arrogant Guppy mostly demands it (6)
- Regular lord wisecracked, we hear (6)
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