Cryptic crossword No 1,876
Sat 20 Jul 2024, set byBluejacket
5
Across
- Fall out, splitting up guy's high school romance? (4-4)
- Having tortoiseshell coat made by Golden State company (6)
- Tripe's cooked, including mace and whale oil (10)
- Like catching Hawaii's yellowfin tunas (4)
- Forgive missing out on old term for panther (4)
- Page worked with meeker employee on estate (10)
- Improvise victory against idiot (4,2)
- Nocturnal mammal in Colorado tucked into acorn nuts (7)
- Bark of laughter after detective fled fish (7)
- Wild donkey incorporated into Iron Age religion (6)
- Tunnels beneath ground half-destroyed by weasels (10)
- Aesop is regularly depicting venomous snakes (4)
- Stubborn animal's piteous whimper from trap (4)
- Reptile's fed a lot of lettuce (10)
- Dig donkey-work (6)
- Plover eaten by famished otter elatedly (8)
Down
- Description of wolf perhaps seen in area after peak hours (5)
- Haze envelops one red piece of metal in hearth (4,3)
- Ape is non-primary colour, mostly uniform brown (9)
- Say Lady Suffolk and second person made out (3)
- Hatchling's in middle of rookery (5)
- Cowherd with everyone rising up against cruel emperor (7)
- Cross small Scottie and a Rottweiler, lying about breed of dog? (9)
- Cattle plague marks your downfall (7)
- Heartlessly impound headless Zulu bird thought to be mythical (9)
- Microsoft's third-tier console has tons for platform (5,4)
- "Cervid" rook? Dictionary essentially misspelling term (3,4)
- Can Hera corrupt hubristic woman in Greek mythology? (7)
- Parrot starts to mimic another bird's call (5)
- Muscle tissue finally located under soft part of animal's shell (5)
- Group of whales in River Dee (3)
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