Cryptic crossword No 340
Fri 18 Feb 2022, set byPanthera
Special Instructions: Ideally, I'd have published this at the start of the month, but it's still perfectly valid now.
Across
- 23d's not easy to cycle! (5)
- Indian prince in conflict over a horse (5)
- Navy blue pill fails to start tackling a borderline case of cataracts? (7)
- Unaccustomed to travel? Not any more! New day, new you - at last! (7)
- Fellow takes shelter in convenient refuge on the outskirts of upscale shopping destination (5,6)
- Early signs of understanding - no-one's left in the dark (5)
- Clergyman's retiring very shortly (3)
- Quite often, a Sikh chant is accompanied with a bit of harmonium (5)
- Angry Unitarian gathering finally takes on councillor behind "aggressive" method of taking down flyers? (4-8,3)
- Ultimately seek to alter the media perception of BTS's music? (6)
- See 22d
- Feel obliged to give to wet blankets (3)
- One shunning trivial pursuits might be a philosopher (6)
- Given the circumstances, it would be appropriate for me to sit beside this river! (6)
- Organ that's rather pronounced? (3)
- Why sex just can't compare against hit Japanese drama! (3)
Down
- Play about the end of partition gets theatrical award (4)
- Anxious following informal reprimand (7)
- Potentially stole from Al Capone? That's not great! (5)
- Rank area close to linden tree (5)
- Initially juxtaposed with the deep unknown, framed like a passage from Finnegan's Wake? (7)
- Hot jockey's naked skin (4)
- Potential companion for hunter, cursing at her errors, bottles it! (8)
- Almost certain lively queen will be the last one standing! (8)
- Practically untouched, a Balinese Hindu temple (4)
- Villain depicted in sci-fi caravanserai (4)
- Easy-to-follow way of presenting information about Zoom (9)
- No-name put out newspaper article supporting bishop (9)
- In the end, pigment trouble keeps fashion restricted to a narrow palette? (3-4)
- Rather ambiguous, yes? Right, but there's no time to change (7)
- Person who's overly interested in twenty øne piløts reportedly gutted after shake-up (4,6)
- 1a picked up pace (4)
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