Cryptic crossword No 244
Mon 6 Dec 2021, set byPhantom
4
Across
- Separated 'flies' and revealed 'files', perhaps (8)
- Hopefully hard drive (6)
- You said, "Start with 1 across, that's the best place" (6)
- Powerless person takes father's place in fight - he moves badly (8)
- Stayed on set, unnoticed (9)
- Faces rabbit on Saturday, cycling (5)
- Saint 'enry's poor fall (7)
- Head of state takes drug for dinner (6)
- To consume food and drink is exhausting (4,2)
- In hearing, it's necessary to recreate a murder (7)
- S = Fibonacci's Sequence of Numbers, mathematicians taught (5)
- Shots cure ladies' flu (9)
- Total plus zero is nothing (8)
- Juvenile centre demolished to build jail (6)
- Heartily vouchsafes support for grant (4,2)
- Is nudity a cause of friction? (8)
Down
- Perhaps vegan nugget ingredient? (3)
- Record world leader moving in upstairs (5)
- Nearly falling awkwardly in tip, baker might need this (5,5)
- Wipe up - secret suddenly revealed (6)
- Correct mixture (4)
- Restructured syndicate in branch (9)
- Wayward adult person had many partners (5,6)
- Quick throw here to finish the game? (2,3,6)
- Loudly colour large sea creatures, subjects for artists (10)
- Corrupt multinationals dissolved in all evolutionary developments (9)
- Strained to see 'bad' dog, say, rearing another animal (6)
- Used to judge brightness of posh blokes undermining Labour leader (5)
- Quiet at last, all is well (4)
- In truth, you'll find it hollow (3)
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