Cryptic crossword No 2,229
Fri 17 Jan 2025, set byMallimack
Special Instructions: "Wild Side". No shenanigans, just a toughie with a hidden theme. It's been a while!
Across
- Complains about two shakes full of beans? Quite the opposite (7)
- Ahoy, seadog! 'Tis an act o' piracy! (6)
- Treat both sides of cavity (5)
- Cross, halved circles, bar (3)
- Per dictator, scrap armistice (5)
- "Never toil now – versatile – millions adopted." (Factory product with three stars here) (5,2,6)
- Work boulder clay up to source of cash (4)
- Fasten a mesh tegument, covering over site of biblical agony (10)
- A lineup clad in rugged fifties style (10)
- King Daddy's music genre (1-3)
- Musical that's certified platinum? (7,6)
- Luau's dancing routine (5)
- International doctors transplanting rear to head – by what method? (3)
- Interstate wound back in US city (5)
- Isn't tea, surprisingly, lacking tea's primary ingredient! (6)
- Courage to take on lover, to start with making love (7)
Down
- As a demonstration, edit, loop and air neglected parts? (10)
- The smallest possible number's described by roughly 29 + 50 (7)
- Somebody with jaunty bounce, rejecting the odds (6)
- Plain speaking at last found in peaceful action from the heart (9)
- Vulgar devil-wrangler (8)
- Elevated skills shown by one American lawyer to the stars (2,5)
- Port that's like, abandoned (4)
- Tool with articulated joins (4)
- Mysterious criminal showing off without failure (10)
- Showbiz is cover for chumps, according to Spooner (9)
- Duck, duck, goose! Firstly, have a rest, then spin around for another sadly popular game (8)
- Technical question encompassing Superman and Wolfsbane, say (7)
- Gag and thump Mallimack for language (7)
- Vicious online squabbler loudly played Debussy sketches (6)
- Green regulations finally reversing direction of travel (4)
- Snappy transport heading north but stopping early (4)
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