Cryptic crossword No 1,798
Sat 1 Jun 2024, set byPotoroo
Special Instructions: This grid celebrates the release of the first Potoroo Puzzle Collection, found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qj6L_86jishySqr2GfTopnpUZJZvFfhYj1zTyS6tRp0/
Across
- Advertise piece of duck (4)
- Hot tub in which you can rest your bones? (8)
- Endangered creature or ten over in atoll swimming (7)
- Lizards disturbed us again! (7)
- Bird that Mrs & I shot (5,3)
- Prepared to study conclusion of story (5)
- Camera trouble returns interrupting Kubrick's film (5)
- Breathe erratically consuming a large hot drink (6,3)
- Commercial vehicle near broken gate's edge (9)
- Group of chicks cross at top of boulevard (5)
- Land fish (5)
- A sign claiming six birds live here (8)
- Score inspired by stringed instrument that's crescent shaped (7)
- Bread, some butter, jams, tea (7)
- Dad's scarfing last of cheese down (8)
- Kiss with stomach in a twist makes you number (4)
Down
- Crack waiter finally cut piece of turkey (4)
- Macabre author's written about being eaten by fat cat (7)
- Start of test run on social media site (7)
- Make a pleasant sound finishing off stick of dough (5)
- Gasp clutching close item of neckwear (7)
- Delicious pie papa left for aunt, ultimately (5)
- Freak son out, being abandoned (8)
- Grip support after changing hands (6)
- Seabirds migrating north to find another? (4)
- Early bird, say, catches first of glowworms? (3)
- Like a sun bear or polar bear quietly running free (8)
- One helping maiden to undress (4)
- Partially recover and adjust sheltered space (7)
- Run after friend wearing gold and green (7)
- Prove English nun's first to participate in sin (6)
- Herb and orange mixed with duck (7)
- Sauce served up with a fine rice dish (5)
- Develop way to escape submarine (5)
- Piece of chicken's weight in grams (4)
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