Special Instructions: Silent America.
Two clues have no definitions but two sets of wordplay. Answers to be entered should be determined by completing the thematic quotation.
Across
Starts to deliver edicts issuing fanciful ideas characterised as if godlike (6)
Pick of Renaissance literature (5)
One who makes out insult to breadwinner on radio (9)
Auks returning to Sweden stealing seabirds (5)
Is this the end of Labour? (5)
Aim at a steeple (6)
Widow's stipend pocketed by American nationalist (5)
Old Arab people eat calabash heart in naan when travelling west (9)
Is dosing a fanciful result of this? (9)
Consulate making space by eating donkey (7)
Talk about Au (i.e. gold) (8)
Block husband when in dreamlike state (7)
Verbally attacks fat boy (6,2)
At sea last of intense sun dried bottom (9)
Down
Perhaps monitors left chamois (7)
Upcoming quagmire on Iran's capital, while vacuous Hesgeth encapsulatesAmerica (4)
Find naked Jock dead outside (6)
Rag cycling heretic about use of land (8)
Must rant violently with these (8)
Adequate Tory leader might be Enoch in this situation (3,3)
Setter doing wrong plant (6)
Mailed crazy shoe collector (6)
How tasty American starts to criticise all liberal morons (4)
Radical as English batter (8)
State of huntress carrying hind's insides (7)
Order Native American following deer when half cut (6)
Pepys perhaps giving pence for diamonds is one who exploits workers (8)
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