Cryptic crossword No 171
Thu 9 Sep 2021, set byQuince
Special Instructions: Assembled damnable group — a first for me! (6,7)
Across
- Tweet that's blasting Conservative about going for week on vacation (6)
- Running risks, run on the run — run, run! (3,5)
- In Nativity, characters heading down Bethlehem ask for place to rest and wash (4,4)
- Gravity occasionally trapping jumper's hip (6)
- After church, commanding officer passed parcel around circle that is full of sweets (9,3)
- Sally, Jack, Elizabeth, and Paul, say (4)
- Romantic urge is indeed all sin, semi-regularly
(8)
- Initially, MentalPlayground's gains fixed suffering from Twitch (8)
- Barker's call, after slice from Federer on court (4)
- Religious figures deposed tsarinas, after report of masked character (12)
- Develop microbe's nuclei for adhesive material (6)
- Challenging maths that's hard to pass (8)
- Type of cable films starring debuts from Harry Enfield and Ross Noble
(8)
- A girl's given opportunity as minor contributor (6)
Down
- Put the screws on grill (4)
- Yields acid, base, and temperature, in upward cycle (9)
- Siren talks up unclothed, unknown leader of Odyssean navy (6)
- Surrey's opener scratched groin, nuts, scoring 12 using unsafe box (12,3)
- Dutch bank charges those ignorant of when credit is due (8)
- Unattached, insecure, slack, sloppy boyfriend (5)
- Bottomless dessert served, offering extremely mouth-watering 12? (7,3)
- Leisurely pursuit in school sports, with hint of thunderstorm forecast (3,7)
- Once arms cosy, turned up at the foot of Scottish isle (5,4)
- Forces to commit unknown numbers to the ground (4,4)
- Department sacks Head of Chemistry for not working (6)
- Potter places chalk there at the correct moment (2,3)
- What, in French quarter, leads to untreatable oral infection (4)
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