Cryptic crossword No 210
Wed 27 Oct 2021, set byQuince
Special Instructions: As promised, the winner of my last puzzle's clue contest is...
Across
- Blimey! Laid back and friendly (7)
- Like intimate sex involving leather with edging from teaser in charge (7)
- Name of chap, in retrospect, of paramount importance? (4)
- Firm politician delivers timeless devices (9)
- Scrooge's endless suffering (5)
- Test-pilot crashing, dropping tip of propellor blade (8)
- Probing refusal turning around heartless affirmation (4)
- Receive a private message before Congress (5)
- Heavenly body's bare bottom (4)
- Mark French and English degree requiring a pass (8)
- Nationalist church, after backing Al Gore (5)
- Snitches getting stitches, maybe? They're in the pipeline (5,4)
- Lock is taut, fits unevenly (4)
- "Motherf**ker" in dictionary is placed under "slang" primarily (7)
- Hamlet's co-star's hard speech cut short (7)
Down
- Either side of washroom being covered in dirt (4)
- Perhaps say "a ride"? Perhaps (1,7)
- Strange saracen out east wheeling in circles? (6)
- North American sightseer, nonetheless, is one interested in discovery? (8)
- After two A&E substitutions, Olympian gets gas (6)
- Tears, following brief words at funeral? (4)
- Outlets covering first editions of "spellbinding, epic and deft" Martin Amis novel (4,5)
- Vegetable's low lithium (5)
- "Harry Potter" spending time on theme (5)
- Melted feta runs into burnt cream? (8)
- Revolutionary AI going into small details (8)
- A thousand returned Nintendo console featuring a cute Japanese aesthetic (6)
- Served up seconds during Christmas period (6)
- Moistens, turning over casserole (4)
- Just light and dry (4)
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