Cryptic crossword No 1,586
Wed 31 Jan 2024, set byRough
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Across
- Pick up insect from the basin with high hopes? (7)
- Short broom that French take home (7)
- Shark scarpered having caught sucker (5)
- Complain one is a novice unfit to front a procession (9)
- Ideal woman to act in wholesome production (7)
- Medium-pitched drone is present (6)
- Nominally it might be bad manners to give him a licking (2,3,8)
- Daybreak duel fought by Earl and fool (6)
- The cod-paste I whisked three times had a fool-like quality (7)
- Overdue payments from Indian queen sent back-to-back repeatedly (2,7)
- Good boy with a pill for a break in the forest (5)
- Mount Everest calamity, second death due to nitrogen poisoning (7)
- From Arctic region departing south-south-west for Europe? (7)
Down
- Going down before sinking the pink? (4)
- Profit from close-to-bone production (4-2)
- Saddles cushioned with fur or to be piled? (9)
- High from over-smoking concentrated resin (5)
- On cue I’ll generate ribosomes (8)
- Say I’ll shortly fit box in this small area (6,4)
- Sound made after digesting very old broad bean pod (6)
- Looking at centrefold, what may be stiff? (6)
- Solvent business owner? (3-7)
- Surface oiled unevenly carries slip hazard (9)
- Firm bread without spread (8)
- Favour promotion over sliding scale bonus (6)
- Protect indigenous people within Saskatchewan’s borders (6)
- Drawing resided centrally in this painter's technique (6)
- Prepare a trap for computer generated sprite (5)
- Keen to not judge ex-Chancellor? (4)
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