Cryptic crossword No 1,763
Mon 13 May 2024, set byMethuselah
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Special Instructions: Originally appeared in the Independent 07/11/22. Republished with kind permission.
Across
- British truth-twisters abandoning left for certain Bushes (6)
- Old man and wife doubled up for something seedy (6)
- Stray from the city all roads lead back to (they say) (4)
- Cosy area behind pub that keeps a lot of green around (4,6)
- Scream when ogre traps recurring character in his wicked lair (6)
- Like youth with mouth, it must be seen and not heard (3,5)
- Sports star may get this £1000 bit of activewear in three sizes (5,4)
- Swiss capital invested in cybernetics (4)
- Throw about to get wicket? (4)
- Sorcerer ultimately in two minds about tempest (9)
- Leave domesticated animals to fly west with swallow (4,4)
- On easy street, being as liberated as possible (6)
- Travelling space, NASA acquires source of ice water (7,3)
- Spheres or a load of balls (4)
- Perhaps I win as manager (or was I a German in tears?) (6,7)
- One nerdy follower of Phi cracks themes on a regular basis (6)
Down
- Monk possibly gets leader of rebels in trouble (7)
- Bits of Shakespeare sonnets, or their subtext? (5)
- Criticises puzzles, getting wrong end of stick (7)
- Film director's short with Romeo who should know his lines (6)
- As part of quiet time, cheeky chappies hide from nanny, perhaps (9)
- See 26a
- Clever saint and I agree to feed five thousand - there'll be no fish in it, though (13)
- Needing content for feature, paps went back daily? (9)
- Shops expect increase in salary to be announced (7)
- A run of notes getting higher or lower (7)
- Comic librettist weirdly wants the Three Tenors (7)
- Party leaders to mess around in field (6)
- Pop to Methuselah's place, finally, and see if he's in for callers? (5)
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