Cryptic crossword No 50
Tue 23 Mar 2021, set byGradgrind
Special Instructions: Creations of 1,5 across appear in all across clues or solutions, in one case linked to a down clue
Across
- Not clued (7)
- Not clued (7)
- Underwear by ASOS, oddly unavailable for cash (5)
- This stepfather beat recoiling stepson heartlessly before start of education (9)
- Tearful person, changing bearing, shows revolver (9)
- Girl's note hidden in cathedral (5)
- Getting on notice, say, to go back inside (4)
- One embroiled in disposition of ancestor? (8)
- Church scandal after lorry sheds load in entrance (8)
- Lively nipper finally gets absorbed in Alex Rider? (4)
- Musketeer's a duff shot (5)
- Well-lit place to gather after dark? (9)
- Gay Texan arranged to catch minicab (9)
- Woman's bright idea partially knocked back (5)
- Crooked wound (7)
- People avoiding boarders with less money up-front? (7)
Down
- Returning from slums, I buck trend in painting (6)
- Incredibly, a former prime minister's on the radio alone, scratching head (9)
- Yarn is fairy-tale bridging supernatural boundaries (5)
- Images of musical variety artist (9)
- Unprepossessing Renaissance leaders framed by the German woodcutter (5)
- Items in recorders' review of test-cases (9)
- Gradgrind's turned up in two cases to frame suspected murderer's picture (5)
- Crow, perhaps, he's shot by railway line (6)
- Gaping hole at the front is filling OK (9)
- Did again beat around, having put off back to harbour (2-7)
- Cough medicine in unusual container (9)
- One to be honoured, on wearing singular knickers? (6)
- Top marks for mountain bears (6)
- Beautiful maiden's first period? (5)
- Curtain I rejected on getting a flat (5)
- Pound of dripping turned up, the end of the stuffing (5)
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