Cryptic crossword No 2,032
Mon 14 Oct 2024, set byHubble
Special Instructions: 22d First word should be Tart's
Across
- Invariably illegal way someone hugs (6)
- Carry on of prisoner with money extremely unstable (8)
- Chap nearly defying bureaucrat (8)
- Strung up mule's bun (6)
- Work in US to arise unexpectedly in test zones (12)
- Cuts and bites top off (4)
- Gloomy because of allocated role (8)
- Showing crumpled boarding pass after boss has flown (8)
- Chooses leaderless Egyptians (4)
- When hose is tied up, woman swinging both ways chases Noel (9,3)
- Hard facing backwards where copper is produced? (6)
- An insect flying, for example (8)
- Plan lost - get back inside (8)
- Concedes Yankee is led around (6)
Down
- Conduct of boy full of energy (4)
- Saul and Aidan squabbling somewhere in Spain (9)
- Light pulse leaving hotel in Stoke following evacuation (6)
- Where Victor is found and weight is concentrated (6,2,7)
- Chat covering award - don't mention it (2,6)
- Imply there's no getting out of hell (5)
- Reading, say, agreement about one stanza that is unfinished (10)
- Unhook pieces beginning to tarnish outfit (10)
- In film, Bradley had to play along (9)
- Isolate risk restraining Ollie's comic partner (8)
- Sort of lower island (6)
- Nation showing up to help Northern Ireland (5)
- Tart'a account supported by papers (4)
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