Cryptic crossword No 1,868
Sat 13 Jul 2024, set byAmoeba
Special Instructions: Previously published in Big Dave's NTSPP slot
Across
- Artist comes in to surreptitiously shoot film for bank (7)
- Perhaps Sri Lankan initially dismissed false accusation (7)
- Large predator nearly turning around – run! (3,2)
- Perfume an elderly relative wears occasionally for church (9)
- Legal escort's date with client interrupted by husband (5,5)
- Prominent Labour leader doesn't have backing band (4)
- Racoon suffering with virus eating meat (11)
- Briefly chic, Zen poem's unfortunately a bad investment (5,6)
- Barnes & Noble initially disregarded obvious diversity, driving fury (4,4)
- Free beer etc celebrity returns to crowd (10)
- Does he date a rude, grasping SOB? (4,1,4)
- Wound up, hurt, but not leaving (5)
- Stop American writer in the middle of Asda (7)
- Debris left by workers fell on a discontented novelist (3,4)
Down
- Every year, do up fancy residence (6)
- Manipulate the UK's austerity (6)
- Fry taco after mixing in container first (6,4)
- Expresses disapproval about 'feminine' beards (5)
- Test ideas out in America (9)
- A king's admitted to A&E (4)
- Dead bulb's outside at present (8)
- Run survey at last for one river behind in Texas plant (8)
- Better and increasingly sexy? (4,4,2)
- Advise Marxist to accept detailed criticism (9)
- Warns electoral system is controlled by our distant relatives (8)
- Works out a French royal abused slave (8)
- Indian leader heading to Gujarat with ship's cargo? (6)
- Some milkmen deliver to geneticist early on (6)
- Opera house dropping leading couple (5)
- See 21a
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