Cryptic crossword No 2,293
Mon 24 Feb 2025, set byLancastrian
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Across
- Fight in front of thousands and they might fly! (6)
- Prefer to change leading hand, making a fuss (6)
- Not quite a taxi, not quite a potato (4)
- Buried in shabby tailored suit with insides cut out (4,2,4)
- A big king of the ring taking king's base (6)
- Puts into place aboard captain's tall ship (8)
- Start to grow, picking up right way into garden (9)
- See 3d
- Around mid-October (4)
- Not sophisticated or formal, setter's going after it (9)
- Makes a perfect example when I'm joining in as bees do dance (8)
- Turned off and on, I find it's reversed (6)
- Badly stuttering chatbot may struggle with this? (6,4)
- Blocks the French exit (4)
- Ending her career today, after she has a drink (6)
- On air, taking a pee creates a fix (6)
Down
- Troubled manservant is a bit less obvious (7)
- Great road holds the way to one's heart? It's the reverse! (5)
- Idling when the assassin goes to work? (7,4)
- Creative in part is troubled (6)
- One brews potions to treat ailments: bite, rash and hand fractured (9)
- Fix shoe, take five to make decision (7)
- Dig up mutilated horse without prejudice (13)
- Show cat setter's seen through sheet of glass (9)
- Sour a classic album? (7)
- Northern lawman free after medal returned (7)
- 5 in a flipping fury, it's taken out on chips (7)
- Red Queen going ahead without love (6)
- Opening up of a flower, a sign of change (5)
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