Cryptic crossword No 158
Sat 21 Aug 2021, set byPopcorn
Special Instructions: Numbering problem: 14d should be (3,5)
Across
- Contract ran back before disturbance. (6)
- Competent match follows promotion. (8)
- Heartless favours containing one-sided amusements. (8)
- Brilliant month. (6)
- The Scot shall somehow give the orders. (4,3,5)
- Cause mutiny without a leader. (6)
- Disorderly pigpen houses moggie. (6)
- Average earnings of domiciled men in trouble. (6,6)
- Military rank picked up by core operating system. (6)
- Declared more senior fellows are council members. (8)
- Honestly, absurdly, covertly. (2,3,3)
- Paraded, having lost a thousand, forming a curve. (6)
Down
- Team leader confuses fungi. (8)
- Raised to another place, we hear. (6)
- Lads once mixed shades of green. (8)
- Squadron leader advocates deluges. (6)
- Worshipped when a failure surrounds the deceased. (8)
- Help when sibling briefly commences task. (6)
- At the first sign of trouble, request effort. (4)
- Branded with electrical charge. (8)
- Confused gladness when he was cast in a Bernstein show. (8)
- Veracity of air conditioned church office. (8)
- French love poem taken to the Big Apple by Lear's son-in-law. (6)
- Insects inhale nitrogen for periods of time. (6)
- Fashionable Roman goddess endlessly becomes subcontinental. (6)
- Preserve insect to extract blood vessel. (4)
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