Cryptic crossword No 2,008
Wed 2 Oct 2024, set bythe
Special Instructions: This puzzle is part of the Cracking The Cryptic discord server's puzzle pack celebrating the puzzle archive reaching 12345 entries.
Across
- Beginning to be a bit of life (5)
- Vicious cat Sid is about (8)
- Bill? He is setter adding V to end of cage to make something to get you stuck (8)
- Drool when one moves to the East becoming a sage (6)
- Sit and rot as force is in Paris with energy and resistance (6)
- Developer of Aqualung's bird sounds to pull broadcast (8)
- Able to read and write without long recap (7)
- Move to inglenook infused with red lighting? (7)
- Area around Glastonbury Tor seems abandoned (8)
- Leaders of king's army start battle against historic citadel (6)
- Organic chemical in wooden axe handles making a comeback (6)
- The origins of man are relatively mundane, only simple evolution and that monkey (8)
- Neutral because old university really in the centre (7)
- One of parliament's lesser members is not wiliest when ignoring the odds (5)
Down
- Amended one debit to become compliant (8)
- Climbing on South-East face's protrusion? (4)
- Second helpings of hash browns after around 6 eggs (6)
- Partially address encephalitis in nature (7)
- Tom's liaison breaks up as Mike leaves, resulting in periods of solitude (10)
- Let upside-down squirrels fight (7)
- In the middle of skiff Bobby waits, sozzled, and loath to take you to this island (5)
- Where we aim at a greater transformation (6,4)
- Elegant dancing as flute keeps time (8)
- Most closely resembling bird-house with an organ inside (7)
- "Spurs taken off backs of heels at Shanghai forum" - Emu Council wiki (7)
- First to open amazing Greek letter (5)
- Russian with lots of mates from Western parts of Kansas always reliably popped out and voted (6)
- Monster undergoing a change of direction to have a really good look? (4)
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