Cryptic crossword No 1,545
Tue 9 Jan 2024, set byTvertimod
Special Instructions: Same solutions but significantly EASIER than 1546
Across
- Moderate lifer in dock - er... no! (7)
- Wealth starts to multiply even as NASDAQ slumps (5)
- Mad life - maybe single... (4)
- Scientist returns carrying exotic ultra fuel (7,3)
- Review concerning donkeys ultimately pointless (8)
- Island priest imprisoned by Persian king (6)
- Verge editor running article eventually (4)
- Escape from android - victory for new Doctor (5)
- Settler from the East in West Sudan (4)
- Earth, say, earth swallowed by mole (6)
- Porter perhaps pinching author's underwear (8)
- Spontaneous devil roved round islands (10)
- Cross and, reportedly, ill-mannered (4)
- Grant from commercial US tech school (5)
- They refer to more than one word (7)
Down
- Asian food served towards rear of ship (3,7)
- Intended Tvertimod as replacement for king of France (6)
- Growth in targeted spending yields crazy returns initially (4)
- Measure's supported and enthusiastically welcomed (8)
- Party animal exhausted in confines of brothel (4)
- Queen's University in England produces top logician (5)
- Sue's collecting tacky souvenir Easter Island heads? (7)
- Unemotional saint heroically hiding woman's ally (5)
- Boring a president perhaps (10)
- Problem call overheard by girl (7)
- Start part four of play at the back of nine (8)
- Delighted with "Edam!" in a down clue? (4,2)
- Aerial manoeuvres in rising wind (5)
- Former POTUS loses head - makes an ass of himself! (4)
- Drains South Africa's resources - ultimately president steps in (4)
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