Cryptic crossword No 1,820
Sat 15 Jun 2024, set byTug
Special Instructions: Three of the four vertical 12-letter answers are 16s; the fourth is comparatively honest. It suits them.
Across
- Every time leaving school (4)
- Stray half as loud naturally (2,6)
- Mocked no-good grid I clued badly (9)
- Split hearts, being heartless (5)
- Latest in Nintendo forbidding Pong (5)
- Streams remixed covers: final pieces from Pulp and Boney M, for example (9)
- Initially few of us at far edge of cliff left to escort one going to bluff (4-7)
- Yankee drew nicest shot and ran (9)
- Many lonely residents stocking material (5)
- One Parisian ahead of westbound Soviet sub (5)
- Football star returns with anthems, snubbing clubs with beasts on the field (9)
- Grind hole, ignoring hole at ship's stern (8)
- Taps into energy over sound again (4)
Down
- Transmission of '30s film star by holding tablet (7)
- Verdict oddly dropped, charging corrupt office - base gets chilling wake-up (4,6)
- Ash & Ron broke up and repeatedly got back together for holiday (4,8)
- Spoken, heard, spoken (4)
- Queen of detectives disheartened chasing Jack two directions to find American's gems (7)
- Hunter failed to eat slice of yak, passes old farts (5-7)
- Bishop has ultimate in protocol for everyone left trapped by sins: fess up to get to heaven (12)
- Everything essential to racing motorcades resuming velocipede exercise, unless it goes around the Triangle (12)
- Top bananas lent truck to go around Spain (10)
- One standing by Knight's sample from Newcastle's Quireboys (7)
- Those confused after playing standalone game (3-4)
- Fool policeman over opening of the last letter (4)
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