Cryptic crossword No 1,940
Tue 27 Aug 2024, set byShane
Special Instructions: Scrabble players (like myself) might spot the theme here. All of the 7 letter entries all have something in common, 3 of them are nearly identical!
Across
- French official blindly chopped accretion, we gather (7)
- Abnormally antsier about parts of the eye (7)
- Solid Oklahoma! (5)
- Gold lariats deformed on a major landmass (9)
- Does without consideration, broke one man’s pylorus (9)
- Famed Norwegian in lib senate (5)
- Lord Nelson first dropped promiscuity, for comparison (5)
- Compose Enda, relax, he is one of the greats (9)
- Criminal mate Trent, massage for instance (9)
- Quiet Greek symbol making Russian cabbage soup (5)
- An increase another time (5)
- Replace screen document written underneath (9)
- Egyptian Queen beat up tit, refined with no degree (9)
- Problem to send out? (5)
- Having trust in Robin? (7)
- Cook’s article, inearth accidentally (7)
Down
- Heartsink nakedly mistreated, much more disgusting (7)
- French woman to end hike with bouncy apparatus (9)
- Perfect thought, start Latin (5)
- Dissipate milk variant without depth (9)
- Inside a safari skydive, that’s super dangerous (5)
- Storage tanks, with many in New York airports, full stops. (9)
- Beef or hen, we say male cows are invalid entries (5)
- One that makes a mess of retsina (7)
- A tornadic destruction for an eight stemmed plant (9)
- Eastern special soda, nimble to set up business (9)
- Poet’s gay Alabamian stereotype? (9)
- Harsh terrain shoe (7)
- Invite imperfect tertian (7)
- Cute sound at max capacity, with one less liberal disgust (5)
- Kiss keyboard key? (5)
- Spicy flavour found inside church Iliad (5)
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