Cryptic crossword No 1,962
Sat 7 Sep 2024, set bySamsa
Special Instructions: Correction: Enumeration for 17a should be (1,5,3,4)
Across
- Fancier of cow trapped in terrible fire (9)
- Rotate buzzer, pressing hard, and get out of town (5)
- Cold ones? (5)
- Frost's precious jacket (9)
- One leaves it up to us, cocktail fruits (7)
- Spanish cheer after cycling injury where one member gets through (7)
- "Ten dings by the clock," as the treasure hunter says (13)
- Suggested education after a tedious retirement (7)
- Very intemperate at first, and old, given temporarily vicious (7)
- New creation cooked up in canteen (9)
- Generation's X? (5)
- Left mug before one drink (5)
- X may be tearing us apart? (9)
Down
- Faux fact? Orwell describes it (1-6)
- Initially put off by every other part of print that's X-rated ... (4)
- ... and request alternative to XXX? (3,7)
- Skims XXX ... (6)
- ... three letters that make one sound kinky right after getting smack (8)
- Put pans back in box (4)
- Smooch more vigorously with X, for one (10)
- Giggle about wife getting X at first (7)
- Lists of events requiring son's punctuality (10)
- Judge incorrectly heard young lady broke platter (10)
- American held up by Scandinavians, European, and African (8)
- In 2000, local resorted to ... X? (7)
- Request a shed's to some degree secured (7)
- Xanthippe was famously against international relations in times past (6)
- Answer: "X" is one! (4)
- Emmanuel regularly falling out with club (4)
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