Cryptic crossword No 2,171
Wed 18 Dec 2024, set byPhantom
Special Instructions: A celebration of 2024's clue-writing contest winners. Credit to Baldur, Blah, Cigogne, Coot, Fez (twice), Flush, Gobbo, Guava, Henri, Polymath, thepoisonedgift and of course Raider for setting it all up. Happy Holidays!
Across
- Hanging pawns stopping attack (6)
- Where to find drones? High Barnet (7)
- Head of state takes drug for dinner (6)
- Start after getting this clue (not long) (3)
- Look children, it's wet in Scotland! (4)
- Cigogne losing heart after Guava finally becomes number one (3)
- Joint from Dasher, cooked (6)
- Not as many shorn sheep (3)
- See 21
- Cry of resignation in French castle I've ruined (4,2,3)
- Exhaust from traffic, perhaps, envelopes street development (3,6)
- In song before the season? Relax! (3)
- Christmas crossword? Hard - I'm not certain to bother (6)
- In first place, Fez, perhaps, might use this to trick everyone! (3,3)
- A number unknown? (3)
- Disregard bottom on the counter (4)
- In essence, thepoisonedgift has an issue (3)
- Liberal Democrats' comeback bears fruit (6)
- Competition in which Coot regularly appears with new experiment (7)
- Unease as one's trousers fall in New York? (6)
Down
- Every now and then fill up Sheikh's case with money (5)
- Spears famed for funky no. 1s? (9)
- Retiring journalist gets a reprimand for column (6)
- Small amounts of semen let out (8)
- Share the win when seeing what Blah and Polymath have in common in composition - primarily, verbal expressiveness (5)
- Endless corruption leads Conservatives to landslides (9)
- Wrinkly nana in Crete? (11)
- Baldur disheartened by new intake - Gobbo's latest to find success in their career, say (5,4)
- Boring long range forecast: essentially hot Down Under (9)
- Keep them or piss me off! (8)
- Block my site after it's corrupted (6)
- Tip from Henri: start to acquire touch and style (5)
- A win once more (5)
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