Cryptic crossword No 2,354
Mon 31 Mar 2025, set byOzpiper
Special Instructions: Shoulder season (N & S hemispheres)...
Across
- Reinstate timepiece in autumnal adjustment (3,3,5,4)
- Enjoy heat occasionally as carrier of 6d perhaps? (6)
- Winning promotion as an alternative fit (8)
- Great fun with piano to heave (4)
- Catch on, making multiple connections (10)
- Inspirational poem on things desired from information about team in Casualty (10)
- Good friend married on the Sunday before Easter (4)
- See 6d
- Dreadfully pale girl, oddly punk, is on the ropes and going down (10)
- Difficult to have snub taken back - hot, cross perhaps? (6,4)
- "What's up son?" secretly offering drinks (4)
- Sent off south with decoration - tempting! (8)
- Dreamworld created by university with best artificial intelligence backing (6)
- Morning feast, bask after? (6,9)
Down
- Oblivious of turn over Scottish refusal about conflict (7)
- Bother from a peak cock-up in containers (4,5)
- Taken in and consumed in space (5)
- Old-fashioned drink ingredient for home fortune telling (4,3)
- Occasionally engages after Chief Health Officer on company overdue producing Easter treats (9,4)
- Bishop thin, not filled out (5)
- Centre reported officer (7)
- Worm catcher has noble chromosome on double track (5,4)
- Eat up when European not working (6,3)
- Mount and start acting (3,4)
- Agent turns up and takes a breather with plumber's helper (7)
- Rough skin under pile of cloth squares (7)
- Baby bird caught hayseed (5)
- Hothouse evens out statue - neat! (5)
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