Cryptic crossword No 2,227
Wed 15 Jan 2025, set byGillafox
Special Instructions: Some simple, some less so - I hope I found a nice balance and provided enough crossers for the trickier ones. Feedback appreciated, cheers!
Across
- Capricious female ignoring tip of gherkin (6)
- Pudding's over! (8)
- Spooks one arriving at toilets (6)
- Retired old Moroccan knocks around in taverns (8)
- Spoils unopened vases (4)
- Conviction of criminal I'd shoved into trellis (10)
- Maybe dancing around poles for ambassador etc (7)
- Pick offends those with misophonia?! (6)
- Runner up's cold at the start, getting friendlier (6)
- Gets out pills and wraps (7)
- They're against the figures they defend? (10)
- Stomach ailment - nursing brew (4)
- What? Manuel asked after a kind of tape for wet spanner? (8)
- Falls over having drunk last of Campari and gin? (6)
- Cycling leads to flexibility and elevation (8)
- Heard you distribute nudes for free (6)
Down
- Face of certain leader to fall after banquet's cleared away (8)
- Cole specimen grafted with sprigs of nerium oleander, breeding another deadly plant? (9)
- Notes passed on (4)
- Flinch oddly after Trump turns up with jam (7)
- Slipped up on overturned wine (5)
- Taught quiet individual (5)
- Hunks hissed hysterically (6)
- Softly pinched by flirtatious ape (4)
- Chain smokers periodically getting invites (4)
- Hearts in anguish reaching after love that hurts (4)
- Fool enlists under pressure to find gemstones (9)
- Supported backside is half lifted (8)
- Weakened from ignoring initial signs of nasty hangover, chundered all over the place (7)
- Is caught seeing things? (4)
- Climbing bean, an abundance bearing fruit (6)
- Expect romantic encounter, having spent year to get close to you (5)
- President taking time for new downstairs cleaner (5)
- His Holiness, nude with vacant expression in public (4)
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