Cryptic crossword No 2,211
Mon 6 Jan 2025, set byGillafox
Special Instructions: Back to basics. A challenging but fair solve, I hope, for the first Monday of the year! As always I appreciate constructive feedback, thank you to PostMark, Fez, Coot, Gennaro and johninterred for your helpful critiques so far - and to Longyfan for your 'cryptic crimes' crossword
Across
- Worker is coating one in oil, about to get stuck in but reluctant to rub shoulders? (10)
- Serves ones in suits? (4)
- Reason I cycle solo through empty paths into the unknown (10)
- Swinging both ways is part of human nature, woman! (4)
- Spurious case of killer dismissed, one's tailing idiot couple (12)
- Nation turned around, nation contested regularly (7)
- Exchanging points in attractive bar, one opposite green (7)
- Still's said to extract condensation (4,3)
- Picked up new leader to be relocated (7)
- Desolate area's seared, earth deficient in green essentially! (6,6)
- Watering holes in central Devonshire (4)
- Organisation's leader ultimately losing face having injected gear at first (10)
- Miss caught short time and again (4)
- Say warning to liberal following vote (3,7)
Down
- The French maybe climbing extremely steep rises here? (4)
- The cut is what I'm referring to (4)
- Met Office distributed calendars today, saving anyone on vacation (8,4)
- Bored crab not finished making complaint? (7)
- Cast out for having abandoned promise after promise, shaking head in disbelief (7)
- Ripping off clothes leads to touching and intimately embracing (10)
- Decide to sway hearts and minds at last (5,5)
- Endless Anglican fraud awkward for English perhaps? (6,6)
- Licence for every purpose (10)
- National treasure with a stony disposition? (10)
- As one nation in pledge, to be detailed in presenting weather? (7)
- Way nurses give baking sheets? (7)
- Bust half-cut one of slippery pair? (4)
- Bits of item discovered nearby (4)
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