Cryptic crossword No 2,282
Tue 18 Feb 2025, set byJeemz
4
Across
- Delivered to compiler a certain sort of suit (4,2,7)
- Vandal could be part of herd touring southern ancient city (9)
- Love to join activist group? It has strings attached (5)
- Neighbour's instrument's resonating (4)
- Prize-winning author requiring minimum insertion or extraction? (4-6)
- Not speaking about rote performance's accolade (8)
- Old-fashioned garment's starting to be reduced (6)
- For dinner-dance told to put this on record player (6)
- Telephone system at home has echo regularly interrupting call (8)
- See 2d
- Registered Scrabble course (4)
- Having no work snooped around and stole (5)
- One that chirps on about "The Third Man" for instance (9)
- Time to celebrate regeneration of a tiny industry (7,6)
Down
- Caught a sailor with array of weapons: serious offence (7,3,7)
- Merit increases periodically raised (4)
- Heading off cunning jackass - this could be pretty ugly (8)
- Like cereal plants, raised wanting bit of rain primarily (5)
- Disrespect of gall bladder shown first by case of gripe (9)
- Kick up one's heels … or one's backside? (7)
- Unshortened a term equivalent to Lent (8)
- Striking sound campaign objectives not entirely upheld (4)
- Outdoor restaurant in Thailand - perfect place to eat seaweed (3,6)
- Having regard to figures broadcast may rerun (8)
- Requires entertaining recipe for offal (8)
- Customer's objective discovered just here... (3,4)
- ...in country where pointless raincoat gets abandoned (7)
- A discontented careworn professor's heart complaint (4)
- Understood diplomacy's protecting Italy (5)
- Reduced time spent outside (4)
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