Cryptic crossword No 2,329
Tue 18 Mar 2025, set bycryptodarby
Special Instructions: The wordplay in 10 clues has been 4dn. Other clues are normal
Across
- Rich banks of England collecting prize (6,2)
- Woman that stops short (6)
- Strong fellow scored after tipping weak drink (6)
- Half afraid to interrupt songstress here? (8)
- Frivolities mostly untrue (9)
- King Arthur originally non-Muslim (5)
- Hungry like Gregory? (7)
- Author of Gold Source (6)
- Face off small change Oscars for role players (6)
- Nursed some backside in Nancy (7)
- Hotshot found in newspaper feature (5)
- Felicity's shape lacks ultimate in elegance (9)
- Arresting one old soldier in a circle (8)
- Groom Pavarotti's core trio (6)
- Problematic absence of abstainers in Derby venue (6)
- Digest battered crab tarts without getting runs (8)
Down
- A good English bronze perhaps (3)
- Tried mob by popular acclaim (5)
- Stripped minerals in skilled hands exposed both sides (10)
- Stringers from Bailey and Buck say (6)
- Roman flower denoted level (4)
- Battlefield panicked alien male (2,7)
- ME warriors infiltrate 1001 footballers (11)
- Lincoln and Fleming trap Anabaptist (11)
- Desserts for weaklings (5,5)
- Rapper Eminem initially stank disgustingly (5,4)
- Page adrift about an old drifter (6)
- Flower for queen after gin cocktail (5)
- Graceful lacking low cunning (4)
- Sinbad’s conveyance in central Morocco (3)
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