Cryptic crossword No 2,081
Fri 8 Nov 2024, set byAvid
Special Instructions: Second puzzle published. As I've discovered, it's not easy producing a full grid of sound clues, but the kind comments on my first puzzle encouraged me to produce another!
Across
- Scot or Englishman, it doesn't matter which, holding out at the end in region of North West France (8)
- Perturbation caused by a French slip (6)
- Put a lid on whisky (6)
- Loony oddly grabbing bottom half-heartedly turns to psychiatric treatment (8)
- Nothing against you Monsieur - I was one once! (4)
- In deserts, without hesitation, imbibe 1cc regularly warn dehydration specialists (10)
- Posh Queen and I never say a word about wee! (7)
- Worked to achieve consistency as said required (7)
- Subject hierarchy in Octavian system? (5,5)
- Mess that might be hoovered up? Sounds like it has been! (4)
- High flyers show skill (8)
- Undergarment of spun fibres (6)
- Assist movement where there is none? (6)
- NY calm or going about business as usual? (8)
Down
- Very important word describing activity held close to the heart - marvellous ultimately in its description of us! (15)
- Foment rioting in polarised circumstances, giving grounds for prosecution? (9,2,4)
- Spy charmed inebriated big beasts (10)
- One batted attractively - as one would say, one hit sharply (7)
- Cry being upset, or it could be an onion? (4)
- One living in Guatemala, perhaps equidistant from Texas/Colombia? (7,8)
- Stating the reality of fame attracts a going-over (2,1,6,2,4)
- See interlope parsed and transposed (10)
- Selecting or throwing out? (7)
- This tells you it's not just as well (4)
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