Cryptic crossword No 1,737
Sun 28 Apr 2024, set byChameleon
Special Instructions: This theme of this 2020 puzzle recently celebrated its tenth anniversary
Across
- Maybe Anna Ptaszynski's opening new email on installing drive (10)
- Dan may get belted by great fighter here (4)
- Old partners backed party that's more blue (5,2)
- Foolish Chameleon and heads of department invited to do with listeners (7)
- Perhaps Sandi Toksvig saves day, getting Pride participant a flower (9)
- Originally, Alan Davies insists online spin-off is "so long" (5)
- Andrew Hunter Murray's novel dismissing awfully rude new president (5,1,6)
- Full set of encyclopaedia consumed by a bank of researchers - they're very sharp (6)
- James Harkin cut down lengthy Fish (5)
- Great thinker with bottle according to some Londoners (9)
- Woman's email stash excludes all odd characters and loners (7)
- Sets of QI clues deciphered (7)
- Secretive character brought back by Anne Miller (4)
- Contradict Andy at live tours, replacing one iffy point with another (10)
Down
- Instalment of show from vinyl record is outstanding, we hear (7)
- Type of switch pressed down by vacuous know-it-all Alex Bell? (6)
- A certain director-general initially erratic and tense (2,4)
- Sort of crossword left unfinished, along with Dan Schreiber's sources for yetis? (8)
- Inner membrane of garment regularly going over top (6)
- Better line up on stage when entertaining back in Greenwich (8)
- "Fish no longer in existence", says Spooner... No Such Thing As A Fish? (7)
- Flashiness seen in Private Eye article skewering a trio of zealous leaders (6)
- A tag written on net does this to #getannaontwitter (8)
- Immoral man elected to bank (4,2)
- Eccentric act on air presents anorakish item (8)
- Stripped down version of Wasps on pause... it's a good cover for the road (7)
- Went without food around teatime, ultimately? On the contrary! (7)
- Missing a buzzer's sound ahead of broadcast (6)
- Pilot is detailed about four random facts (6)
- See 15a
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