Cryptic crossword No 1,899
Sun 4 Aug 2024, set byMethuselah
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Special Instructions: Originally appeared in the Independent 17/11/22. Republished with kind permission.
Across
- Rubbish poetry aches endlessly – that's the long and the short of it (7)
- Bungling pal fleeced by gold-digger in the end (7)
- Front of blockade let down for liberal lord (5)
- Looking in mirror, see what wicked types may be up to (3)
- Carved item bound for synagogue possibly includes symbol different from cross (5,4)
- Once humans have died off, he'll really push the envelope... (7)
- ...knocking around at nine hundred like Methuselah (7)
- Comic character's a friend of Batman and Superman (5,10)
- Head of airline's very happy to abandon old fighter pilot (7)
- One who fancies getting married, perhaps? (7)
- Cooler's nice and fiery wings discounted (5)
- Hamburger's good and natural (3)
- Unprofessionally laid down in the middle of pillow fight (3-2)
- Wolf impressed by home that's most unlike a pig sty (7)
- Sister bandages injury at work, ultimately doing this? (7)
Down
- See 12a
- Calm helper regularly stops PG Wodehouse's lead character getting upset (6)
- Novel about vessel almost too detailed (4,4)
- Spanish dish needing one bone but tossing out another (6)
- Old writer taps tablet to reveal parody (8)
- Master has flogger in Fifty Shades of Grey? (4,6)
- Talented but short Poirot figured out quick getaway method (13)
- Doing job from home, or sticking the telly on? (6,7)
- Such a message in album is unexpectedly left (10)
- They'll draw up contracts excluding certain stars (8)
- Row about high-pitched electronic beeping on phone (4,4)
- High-flying American brothers picked up parts of bill (6)
- Flat whites you wouldn't want to swallow (6)
- Court order put solicitor's nose out of joint (4)
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