Cryptic crossword No 214
Fri 29 Oct 2021, set byPiper
Special Instructions: One of a pair of puzzles for art lovers
Across
- Alter ego and rogue occasionally seen at 10ac with 1d (6)
- Doubting a Gainsborough? (6)
- Sounds like 26ac in the valley (4)
- Met art done surprisingly here? (4,6)
- Frankenthaler, leader in abstraction, made a saint (6)
- Car you are situated in, on the West side of South American country (8)
- Strikes back against churning tides, most idiotic. (9)
- Seen at 10ac, he uses bits of hardwood, undercoat, matt and emulsion (4)
- Seen at 10ac, he’s got one foot in Asia and one in Europe (4)
- Insignificant, Hamlet’s narrow mentality (5,4)
- Feeling in your gut, take some of Mrs Miggins’ tincture (8)
- American embroiled in gossip, found in the woods (6)
- Controversial Yemeni art, top of class, seen at 10ac (6,4)
- Grayson Perry requires this at work and occasionally when he goes out (4)
- She took a lot of photos for grinder (6)
- Execute again at 10ac every few years (6)
Down
- Young woman loses right to accompany boy to 10ac with 1ac (7)
- A measure of central figures in 90s - McQueen, Landy, Lucas, Whiteread (5)
- Participate in Congress, provide good detail clumsily (3,4)
- Murmur response for us (6)
- Holiday season, cryptically, GU? (3,6)
- Description of paint on canvas, surreal, lacking tangible feature of portrait (7)
- Transformed a pointless Matisse in The Met, it’s contemporary (2,3,4,4)
- A bit patchy, like 1d and Sullivan’s Cornish work? (9)
- Evidence of artistic temperament perhaps - militant, rumbustious in part (7)
- Permit insects no scalp exposure initially (7)
- Tiring, when she signs her work at 10ac (7)
- Catalyst for wild behaviour, with absent father, by Piper (6)
- African-American woman in charge of ward perhaps (5)
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