Cryptic crossword No 2,238
Fri 24 Jan 2025, set byGillafox
Special Instructions: Trying something a little different! Feedback especially appreciated on this puzzle: what worked for you and what didn't?
Across
- Being first to investigate case of scam spearheaded by Johnson? (8)
- A Republican male's shaft is where you're likely to encounter Musk (6)
- Foreman? (4)
- Supply clasp with diamonds and wool to cobblers (10)
- Pointed digs made by American? (6)
- One working out reasonably well? (8)
- Beg creditor?! (7,6)
- Smooth ruffled feathers and the rest! (4,4)
- Picture one more thing you could have overlooked at first (6)
- Relatively observant head of state? (3,7)
- Those named here are put away (4)
- Cooler subplot? (6)
- Top Brexiteers backpedalling at first signs of economic and social turmoil (8)
Down
- Uplifting passage uniting opposing sides? (6)
- Holding to promote stock growth? (4)
- Cautious individual escaped from trap (8)
- One nibbling edges of leaf and crawling here and there? (6)
- Illegally knocking out top student for politician without a word (10)
- Stick-in-the-mud's using road improperly -- no good! (8)
- Pig-headed centrist impeding progress along the way? (6,4,3)
- To reach the desired position of Holy Father, one must be driven (10)
- Blown pipe in cold toilet, water essentially hitting bottom (8)
- Old priest mounting antique dealer (8)
- Heard you indoors romping with sensational things picked up in Hooters (6)
- Buffalo's on the plain (6)
- Gillafox's forgotten end of the story (4)
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