Cryptic crossword No 2,204
Sat 4 Jan 2025, set byCatnip
Special Instructions: This was my Rookie Corner debut before Christmas, now republished here for a different audience.
Across
- Left group from work before social (6,5)
- Suspect a French test (7)
- Truce broken after heartless live address by Don? (7)
- Whirlpool set off alerts inside old American dam (9)
- Retraction of underwhelmed review welcomed by film's subject (5)
- Caught headless grub (4)
- Extremely polite date, Claire isn't off-and-on (10)
- Old Queen to strike obnoxious cow close to Florence (10)
- Heroin consumed by green parrot (4)
- Returning craft carrying top quality half crown (5)
- Stenographer somehow got away with ordering a swift drink (9)
- Like a sucker, Catnip's left in denial of old age (7)
- Cross the ocean primarily to seize treasure (7)
- America not bothered about term of English grammar? (5,6)
Down
- Stock market tips including name copied inaccurately (6,9)
- Depression apparent in Royal Navy? (5)
- Bear east entering rocky ground (7)
- Former college band brought back vinyl? (7)
- Performances of bum touring Italy and Sweden (8)
- Berry strain that may be impossible to discover (3,5,3,4)
- Problem with German joining international conference (6,7)
- Retired Arab boosts signal quality for entertainment hub? (9,4)
- God arrived away from prying eyes (2,6)
- Possibly wave to Bob, caught leaving secretly in disguise (7)
- Radical African nation imports sparkling wine (7)
- Somewhat plump Antonio for Twelfth Night performance? (5)
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