Cryptic crossword No 2,235
Mon 20 Jan 2025, set byHawkins
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Special Instructions: Bon appetit!
Across
- Complex dirge embodying last laments firstly questioned... (7)
- ...Oxford Blue perhaps, by unkempt beeches without British... (6)
- ...snack for your good health, that is! (7)
- Size of packet given by very large piece? (7)
- Type of bar food following wedding (9)
- With no delay, from the East, Nagaland's removing date from their food? (5)
- Strikebreaker helps King out in revolution (4)
- Intrusive ad for quirky card? (3-2)
- Feast maybe alternately part of witches' cursed AGM (3,5)
- Time after time, heads for cheap items (3)
- Filling in an initialism usually transfers to accentuable motto (5,7,6)
- Run after worker for pint? (4)
- It could make you weep when I interrupt working with no backing (5)
- Informally complain about complaint? (9)
- See 23
- Saw expert part of speech (7)
- See 23
- Sailor: warning daughter, filling stomach (7)
Down
- Literary figure manages to translate English into Arabic at first (6)
- Backfiring blitzkrieg amicably acquired picture (5)
- Set for corruption after changing sides (3)
- We're told moisture arrives soon (3)
- Frozen body to recover consciousness shortly? (5)
- Urge to appear before one's face in American Maxim? (3,2)
- Member of deadly triad drunk rum in base (9)
- Small portion of claret sates revolutionary (6)
- Typical drunken fare from bloke babbling (5)
- Jelly snake I initially consume (5)
- Halves fixed unit cost with... (4,2,3)
- ...committee putting energy into rough plan (5)
- Procedure after troublemaker served up meal -- in the Deep South (2-3)
- Promenade is road to flatten (6)
- Jacob's eldest oddly rueful over British-European negotiations at first (6)
- And yes - in Germany, head to centre for sausage! (5)
- One upper-class bachelor turns good in Spain (5)
- See 20a
- Ring left away from object found in fairy-tale bed? (3)
- Ex fooled every so often (3)
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