Cryptic crossword No 1,546
Tue 9 Jan 2024, set byTvertimod
Special Instructions: Same solutions but significantly HARDER than 1545
Across
- Trainee provided boarding/landing pass (7)
- Wealth starts to multiply even as NASDAQ slumps (5)
- Life can be a bastard! (4)
- Scientist returns with exotic ultra-injection fuel (7,3)
- Reallocate vacated seats in Ohio before start of Senate review (8)
- Country priest welcomed by king (6)
- Evil's principal focus of angels following death of Old Nick (4)
- Escape from robot - victory for new Doctor (5)
- Settler from the East in West Sudan (4)
- Earth, say, earth in flash pot (6)
- Porter perhaps pinching author's underwear (8)
- Rascal wandered round islands giving unprepared... (10)
- ...recital of Rugged Old Cross (4)
- Commercial tech school grant (5)
- Eg, roads and rivers run in and around Alabama (7)
Down
- Asian, say, behind junk food served as starter... (3,7)
- ...intended it originally for country's king (6)
- Growth in targeted spending yields crazy returns initially (4)
- Held measure fortified... (8)
- ...party animal exhausted in confines of brothel (4)
- Logician's girl in Aberdeen (5)
- Sue's collecting, say, tacky souvenir moai? (7)
- Silent, empty moon, rising cold, impassive (5)
- Boring a president perhaps (10)
- Call girl made out with poser (7)
- Start of play delayed: no change - 50 for 5 (8)
- Delighted with Edam (4,2)
- Plane manoeuvres in rising wind (5)
- Odd glimpse of phat bottom (4)
- Strike by plumbers ultimately left blocked drains (4)
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