Cryptic crossword No 2,167
Mon 16 Dec 2024, set bychracol
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Across
- In favour of heaps of particles at the centre of everything (7)
- Old man holding hard sash hang-up (6)
- Likely woman in pub, not unknown (known to Basil), joining show (8)
- Half of filled cream puffs for just deserts (6)
- "You is restful" correct? I'll leave you to it (4,8)
- Tom Largish decrypted instructions (10)
- South African sense picked up, used to be worth sixpence in Australia (3)
- Finally sails back maxi and skim over water perhaps? (3)
- Excellent new nerd goes west meets someone acting in the role for events happening every four years (10)
- If without question, IQ makes sense (12)
- Germany rules crack (6)
- ‘E’ll shout in trouble and foot the bill (5,3)
- Enjoy dressing? (6)
- Taps arts boost regularly for you.com, say (7)
Down
- Doubly good shellfish from New Zealand (4)
- The origins of my straight-shooting Kalashnikov are a big Siberian city (4)
- Old boy starts to imagine the unseen awaiting lines read out at a funeral (8)
- Rent with power to leave? (5)
- Love with Harry arranged and occuring every hour (6)
- Regularly fob off with euro zen-affected barrier? (6,4)
- Phoney American spooks found inside airlift mayhem (10)
- Materialised in temporary loo medics built (6)
- German director the Reverend declared a fish spotter (10)
- Socialite frenzied with greed primarily is selfish and vain (10)
- Thanks, I hear you're in charge of bull (6)
- Okay, I did it mother, carrying each cup left inside (3,5)
- Demented gales around the onset of dusk in dells (6)
- In the bats I see announced there is a moral standard (5)
- Half a drum tab finally and typically underground (4)
- Test altered and any marked alteration should be ignored (4)
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