Cryptic crossword No 169
Wed 8 Sep 2021, set byGradgrind
Special Instructions: This crossword was compiled for my brother's birthday - this might become obvious on completion.
Across
- Oily car smell regularly fixed without effort (6)
- Handsome man grabs maiden before end of French lecture (8)
- Large black round eyes, so it's said (8)
- Drink in a bar's beginning with brother's round (6)
- Diary misplaced by East or West Indian gangster (6)
- One's wrong in retrospect to take bow revealing bloomers (8)
- Tiddles consumes small birds (7)
- Plug more fitting for a foreign socket perhaps? (7)
- Punchy old politician protects constituents (8)
- Holy man, Eric, not having starter - time's hard (6)
- After half a sherry, Sue's heard to make insightful comment (6)
- Pat in her unusual flowery accessories (8)
- In hospital nothing normal unfortunately about internal secretions (8)
- Men taken in by gentle Englishman abroad (6)
Down
- Confirm tale David mostly made up (8)
- Individual madly desired is clutching bedclothes (10)
- New York bible one leaves in four bits? (6)
- Insect served up outside state restaurant (7)
- One Maidenhead couple emerged disheartened and diminished (8)
- Issues without first or last sections (4)
- Rising corrosion is trouble for Jews (6)
- One's fairy friend, behaving like Napoleon? (10)
- Persuasive lot working with queen (8)
- And the rest create chaos after Pete stripped (8)
- Work in a dotty way after second drink (7)
- Bird of prey possibly parrot in disguise (6)
- "Be frugal first and foremost: share clothing round" instructs Miss Prism (6)
- Old poem in scripture, by Gradgrind? (4)
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