Cryptic crossword No 3,463
Special Instructions: 11a. has an alternate clue, provided below. The given clue is extremely unfair - but I was encouraged to leave it in for its bizarre surface. This puzzle is, in general, fairly tricksy, I feel - please comment any feedback!
Alternate clue for 11a.:
Modified teal mixed with crimson.
Across
- Exercise that's taking one's heart out in returning pain? (4)
- Charisma to a youth lies principally in - you got it! - drip, drip, drip! (9)
- Regularly done thing, in uniform? (5)
- No right to mourn heron? (5)
- Woo! Cold and hot, a real marvel at first glance. (5)
- Good utopia ultimately owns mistake; evil revolutionary warfare. (9)
- Roughness after cutting seed that's sticky. (4)
- Fellows receiving assistance by first of seventy virgins? (7)
- Super, two and two make a diameter? (5)
- Dishes sent back after finding South American sauce inside. (7)
- Fat knight's honour to sit in front of sausage with empty stomach. (5)
- Achievable epiphany. (7)
- Stormy clap, so see flashes. (9)
- Took away shade? (9)
- Changed a letter a letter being changed being changed. (7)
Down
- As clouds move swiftly, avoiding storm while sailing. (8)
- Yellow badger barely losing scalp? (8)
- Lazing amid wattle, drunk and drained of energy, inspires this Australian anthem? (8,7)
- Act the fool? Scram. (4,2)
- So, K?? (6)
- Plan to speak out. (7)
- Vote Republican on particular charge! (8)
- Christ's words, set in stone. (6)
- Community service hours being distributed across lines. (15)
- Streets I would see at last along the way? (8)
- Sour soup produced from chicken's heart blended with broths? (7)
- On melting, zero Fahrenheit before it could be unthawed? (7)
- A.I. means, sadly, loss of memory? (7)
- Shoot your shot with this chap regularly, this setter remains awkward at first. (6)
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