Cryptic crossword No 243
Mon 6 Dec 2021, set byCinto
Unrated
4
Across
- Turn tap onto a real imaginary type of science (12)
- Illegal gun sale contains silver tongues (9)
- Beaming faces of a gorgeous litter of whelps (5)
- Regular felt fur dress without tail gets noted study (5)
- A bit too enthusiastic before tucking into egg and ginger without a drink (9)
- Politicians and leaders of Scarborough, Edmonton, Richmond and Stratford divided by Niagara and Toronto suburbs (8)
- One up in arms and on the other side (6)
- Snare drum's base covered in peculiar sheen (6)
- Shapeshifter, Don, screamed at wild creature (8)
- Dissuade someone from speech published by naked toff (4,3,2)
- Motherless Machiavelli spits out rotten veal and spicy pod (5)
- 21D crowned with rainbow top but loses teddy gag (5)
- Sympathetic sort of community (9)
- A cooled spike skewered an optical tube (12)
Down
- Slide into confusion (6-7)
- Sport gun goes off in publishing house (7)
- Unsafe route test results in tics (9)
- Identify council for hanging information? (8)
- Troops chasing green light for brown nosers (3-3)
- Nonsense in a corner; like this one, for instance (5)
- Frog flayed by a large pin, energetically (7)
- Truths from tooth's tips? (5,2,6)
- Musical building! (9)
- Ridiculous rump fees for vanity staples (8)
- Reserves I burned while missing in action (7)
- Strip back floor if ice has crack (7)
- Almost vomited topless and scratched the surface (6)
- Clay pigment lifts task's heart to the head (5)
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