Cryptic crossword No 1,800
Mon 3 Jun 2024, set bybuddy
Special Instructions: This appeared as #529 in Big Dave's Rookie Corner
Across
- Ease senior clothing shortage (7)
- Deal with reporters besieging only child (7)
- Grand church that is the centrepiece of Suffolk (5)
- Harry guards degenerate demonstrator (9)
- Fail to pick an empty Scrabble tile? (4,1,5)
- Oddly, some urge to steal (4)
- Special date arranged for new business financing (4,7)
- Top manager's routine: playing hangman (11)
- Starts to mix a yolk with a bit of oil to create sauce (4)
- Incite us with very loud ranting? Enough! (10)
- Weekly magazine - The Observer? (9)
- Buddy: a fighter with heart of stone (5)
- Obscure excerpts written in Early English (7)
- When the stars are seen aligning (7)
Down
- Every now and then, upset head teachers split (6)
- Sensual soul encounters onset of lust (6)
- Ultimately, Josef K devoured by Scottish jackdaw: A bizarre unfinished sequel that's nightmarish and surreal (10)
- Traumatized elephant abandoning the troubled country (5)
- Debate both sides of press release? Sorry, no can do (3,3,3)
- Withdrawing component of charger: EV operation's terminated (4)
- In Bucharest, I'm a tenured judge (8)
- Poor result embroils German government in conflict (8)
- See program deliver stored answer (10)
- Tie up queen before noon, holding dry ceremony (9)
- "Can I take a look?" "I'm thinking about it" (3,2,3)
- In excellent health, all right (4,4)
- Little woman turns up in Italy, producing twins (6)
- Mighty strain to contain banks of Tamar (6)
- Feign warning in golf? Just the opposite (5)
- Discontinue stew after losing recipe (4)
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