Cryptic crossword No 2,245
Wed 29 Jan 2025, set byPippi
Special Instructions: First crossword! Happily receiving quibbly feedback :)
Across
- Consume part of dubious egg (3)
- Gathering soldiers coax final payment from household (7,3)
- Held before a ranking monk (5)
- Tinder user hiding baffled cry giving trouble (4,5)
- Love story of big boy in ill-fated heart (7)
- With one foot raised step over small creature (7)
- Man starts renovating Indianapolis, finding its positive bits for neighbourhood's costly makeovers (15)
- Assembly points east to beaten path (7)
- Mr Stark stuck in frenzied man opposition (7)
- Group of fishhooks drag Satan (9)
- Basic words from nun so messed up (5)
- Penelope plants heroin farm starters (5,5)
- 'Big bird!' You said, after flustering me (3)
Down
- Head soldier on banks of ultrahip harbour rounds up people there to help (7,6)
- Average tarot card reader (6)
- Restless grouping for seven characters (6,2,6)
- Buffoons about, sounds like something borrowed by old Bob (6)
- I got endlessly mixed up with odd anti-spawn, a capital way to find the leader of pilgrims (8)
- Company calling out our one queen has a grave job (7)
- Weirdo carved up a wry slice for bugs (6,8)
- Alarmed mum, this bruise is common place for school trips (7,6)
- Little man of little sleep before endless old age (8)
- Oddly, the darker shade outer unevenness is a consequence of rust (7)
- Super slick Spooner's body wash for deer (2,4)
- Sea sickness messes up cruise's final haunt without the sea (6)
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