Cryptic crossword No 1,577
Sat 27 Jan 2024, set bySamsa
5
Across
- Internal purge of rival, one without mercy in the end (5)
- A man used a potty too much (2,7)
- Decide about what you do? (7)
- Elon's first social network to retweet piece-of-s*** bullies for money (7)
- Blackbirds in China! (5)
- Neon ball (3)
- Might Edward really hit the bottom? (5)
- "Princess and the Pee" makes a splash (3)
- Large crater contributing to local derailment (7)
- Tanner finally prints menu when bread evens out (6)
- Island with dictator deserted on it is Elba? (5)
- Needing no introduction: Fire and Fury (3)
- See 6d
- The very latest airhead to leave home of The Bears? (7)
- See 1d
- He brags like Gulliver addressing the Lilliputians? (3,6)
- See 4d
Down
- Swear to set webinars up (4,7)
- Observe present and past in Bob (6)
- Search engine's filled with every panda - they lessen resistence (4,8)
- Paddington's skeleton delivered with essentials (4,5)
- Nice one - the German is back, and England gets partially surrounded (5,5)
- Perfect, or only good? (4,5)
- See 3
- Cockney had inspiring dream, left laughing (6)
- See 20a
- Punches way below the belt? (5)
- 1? (10)
- Head of essentially uncut hair (5)
- Order pig stew for breakfast (8)
- Negative Nancy orders tin openers (3)
- Nightmarish beings announce an annoying printer feature? (6)
- Lettuce head to glumly scoff served up ... (6)
- ... bottomless salad is back, unfortunately! (4)
- First sign of death row reversing part of sentence (4)
- Cases and cases of tofu burritos (4)
- What the snake says about a lack of respect? (4)
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