Cryptic crossword No 2,164
Sun 15 Dec 2024, set bymaymes
Special Instructions: Hope you enjoy, feedback welcome!
Across
- Come back without personal assistant for beneficiary (6)
- Gets together adults missing North West (6)
- Shoots tail off Bambi - needs glasses! (6)
- Enigmatic leader in royal air force company gets to clearly repeat statement (8)
- Fashionable greeting between conservatives (4)
- Erroneously inputted i.e. lack of skill (10)
- Drunken rune writer spilled gin mixed with tango, without apologising (11)
- Great book, established by son, is held by beautiful french queen (10)
- The girl's love for the man of the hour (4)
- Frantic times with OCD at home (8)
- One chasing Spanish sun for comfort (6)
- Visual science endlessly seen in a different way (6)
- Seafood knocked back in Naples summertime (6)
Down
- Festive Greek headwear (7)
- Bishop confuses Arabic knight, to get to defensive structure (8)
- Sweet smell resulting from returning cultural tradition in Northern Ireland (6)
- Twitchers spot it, target it, badly (5,3)
- Expert wants to phone home, perhaps, for lots of food (6)
- Pace shown in fast ride (6)
- Wind clock with face removed, replaced by British piece for construction (11)
- Muddled cleric given endless tea gets stirring! (8)
- Opening of Northern Ireland hotel I looked into seems to have a feeling of hopelessness (8)
- Fiends exchange a penny for fifty fruits (6)
- Queen in a sticky situation gets a tingle to her skin (7)
- At the conclusion of mount fuji hike, neither couple had rowed (6)
- Escape in French street results in help (6)
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