Cryptic crossword No 2,196
Tue 31 Dec 2024, set byGollum
Special Instructions: A happy, peaceful and prosperous New Year to all.
Across
- Barges with glossy back (5)
- Distinguish legendary Swiss (slightly American) role (4,5)
- Gary, perhaps the original choice for President (3,3)
- A frequently irresponsible person may support irrational anger (8)
- "I, the original Orange American Politician - I fooled a nation" (8)
- Resistance with sheep heading to jug (4)
- Idles round in training grounds... (7)
- ...a dramatic scene with layabout (misbehaving boy departing) and ongoing bone malformation (7)
- Exopolitics occasionally is impressive (4)
- Get used to a small amount of America grabbing pussy (8)
- Cultivated teasel or wild olive (8)
- Reserve about Pence lying on top of the world (3,3)
- Persistent followers lynch a headless individual (7-2)
- Second-generation Japanese immigrant hidden in an Omani's eiderdown (5)
Down
- Nearly tidy a felon away - it's a let-down (9)
- Godlike, but I hear 'e 'obbles! (8)
- Traitorous leader in a nervous network is not charged (7)
- Burn plant continually in Mar-A-Lago, take note (4,4)
- Perhaps a sign of an Apprentice - record delayed (1-5)
- Died around the 6th of January, but preserved (5)
- Cheat's picture, odd product of sunlamp (4)
- Maliciously destroys - it's clog time! (9)
- Gerrymandered electorate, losing fifty, losing none... and the rest (2,6)
- Disease of unhealthy serial insurrectionist throwing guts up (8)
- Proceed to film (5,2)
- Leapt up, circled - crashes (6)
- Initially, Clacton only idolised Farage's hairstyle (4)
- Another name for a fibber's not "Republican" (5)
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