Cryptic crossword No 2,326
Sun 16 Mar 2025, set byShorty
Special Instructions: The ends justify the means, as 5d told us in a roundabout way.
Across
- Little Boy Blue's success (7)
- Turn of phrase in papers I'm carrying round (5)
- Adam, finally taken in by falsehood, obtains fruit (4)
- Grudgingly accept oil, then tee off (3,3,4)
- I certainly get guided around as a pensioner? (8)
- Cola is served up for party (6)
- In bed, naked woman (4)
- Gates opened up for all the world, according to 5d (5)
- Close relative of the walrus (4)
- Starts from wailing about dead dad, Elsinore's Dane gets stuffed (6)
- Most obese jockeys in knockout round (8)
- Supporter of chambers heading off to appear in court (5,5)
- Traditional drama involving A. Arkwright (4)
- Firm disrupted by left wing beliefs (5)
- Piece from cellist ensures the audience does this? (7)
Down
- Crass Decca arrangement for 'Something' that opens doors (6,4)
- Get new kit back for criminal (6)
- Musical instrument used in early recordings (4)
- I get she's desperate to be a tourist (8)
- The Bard of Avon's edited testament (4)
- Immorality about love, say (5)
- Part of Vermont, an American state (7)
- Finale of 5d's Scottish play with date arranged for release (5)
- The largest of lakes in a space as spread out (7,3)
- Radical doctor with a staff shortage (7)
- State of calm as I noted, freaking out (8)
- Old supporter of Sky TV leader, finally (2,4)
- Sailor aboard ship: 'Constellation' perhaps? (5)
- Born and died in poverty (4)
- Key passage with no opening (4)
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