Cryptic crossword No 3,399
Special Instructions: NOT INTENDED TO BE SOLVED, JUST UPLOADING SOME OLD XWORDS SINCE I'M NEW HERE. Seb's birthday (Jan 27, 2025) – Birthday messages can be found both as an acronym (in the first letters of the clues) as well as a Nina in the grid (partially in binary and hexadecimal form).
Across
- Ommitting anger, bloodsuckers repeated musical introductions (5)
- Handed over organ in deed (9)
- Fortified bank rooms discussed – they'll shock you! (5)
- Round fruit from US eaten by Mark: exotic lemon (4,5)
- Amount covers a new court's private room (7)
- Year's beginning repelled rubbish caretaker (7)
- Random idea about carbon, tin, and uranium, eg (8)
- Occasionally, ad tweeted by American nerd (5)
- Och! Tyneside ship pursues large monster's home (4,4)
- Avoid first lady holding poster (5)
- Nameless one rejected fruit drink from Greece (7)
- Oscar, losing face, allowed red (7)
- Husband or son on back of equine mammal (5)
- Evidence of joy or sadness runs quickly (5)
- Regularly, trio turned on run, entering Ghent's outskirts for something to eat (9)
- The gin bar strangely showing signs of life? (9)
Down
- Rubbish comedian accepts no authority (9)
- Eccentric role in a flap (7)
- Announcers choosing tracks discover half-cut riders (4,7)
- Nuts pull it in gym, increasing rapidly (11)
- Travel restriction? (4,4)
- Tending to cause conflict, the German's claiming V is 4 (8)
- Initially, Vanessa interrupted Seb in tense call (5)
- Part of mirror reflects lip (3)
- Old stone tools working the soil (7)
- Using only 0 and 1, scrap a line (6)
- Dispatch friend's fellow crewmen (9)
- Helping of plastic and elastic (light amount) (7)
- Small person's pastime, mostly information technology (6)
- Uncovered fast bird not looking very well (5)
- Nothing replaces key god's sentimentality (3)
- Reveal I'm in a lovely surrounding neither here nor there (7)
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