Cryptic crossword No 2,134
Sun 1 Dec 2024, set bymaymes
Special Instructions: Second crack at setting - hope you enjoy
Across
- It's loud and clear around Los Angeles, Rhode Island: nothing, North Carolina area: fifty-fifty (7,4) (11)
- Huge matriarch emerges from cocoon (7)
- Gives energy to horse (7)
- Orlok's favourite tipple, maybe resulted in bleary eyes (9)
- Purge cluttered treasure map marking (5)
- Fairy hit with a stick (4)
- Mobilisation belies mass gatherings (10)
- Appears uninvited old boy trapped in vaults is after Vietnamese bowl (10)
- Get-togethers specifically including good medium (4)
- Wizened journalist follows returning number one pupil (5)
- Someone offering alternative route you missed, having ingested flipping LSD! (9)
- For when you need to get back on the horse (7)
- Flowers taken out of porch, I'd suggest (7)
- Suppose he is posh yet troubled (11)
Down
- Lineage of Nautilus skipper's dubious, missing namesake (6,9) (15)
- Keep clear of rising star with nothing inside (5)
- Holy Mackerel, perhaps! (7)
- Volatile kinetic energy lost current for smart accessory (7)
- What you might get from a loan shark, perhaps (1,3,4) (8)
- One-off event, hopefully... (9,6) (15)
- Three brothers sang 'me me me' without any echoes: hit! (6)
- Public Relations line shows how things are done (6)
- Pirate drove at sea, lacking velocity and without any energy for voyage (8)
- Improve European (6)
- Rare breed found in Dr. Foster's past haunt (3,4) (7)
- Bedfordshire copper, maybe, pained from lack of movement (7)
- Ragged break in ship's middle causing tension (6)
- Prickly chief inspector covers naked truths (5)
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