Cryptic crossword No 654
Tue 30 Aug 2022, set byConto
Special Instructions: 'Countdown' puzzle copyright 1 Across. Original version first published as No. 2050, Oct 2021 issue.
Across
- 20 points (5)
- The 19th hole? Or that used during the first 18? (4,4)
- See 17
- Fans of Jesus, he who scored cracking headers in extra time against Sweden (11)
- Draw around article made of clay (7)
- Essentially 16 or 15 years after European sculptor slowly starts to make part of a mosaic (7)
- Revelation that is gnomic? (6-3)
- 'Boo!' Is this a line from 'Rocket Man'? (5,3)
- They're used when you check out pictures with first son, 14A (5)
- Dismantle the European Union, led by posh right-wing character from 'Spectator' - THIS is what's called for? (9)
- Dobbin eats a bit of roughage that is rougher (7)
- The first half of Enya LP, 'Before the White' (7)
- Cheryl's 12 or 13 (6,5)
- News about a relative (3)
- Rise excitedly about 11, being more raunchy (8)
- Timeless toys you endlessly spin (2-3)
Down
- So...10 turns to throw rocks (5)
- Extension of iron rule (5)
- Famous Brazilian held up north of Hampshire with animals from afar (9)
- Anything? Nothing (but - 9 at first) (5)
- If arising, seven-hundred-and-seventy-five-thousand, initially divided by fifty-thousand = 8½ + 7? (5)
- Staggering presales by 'Introduction to Edward Gibbon' (6,3)
- Splash about in secret tap's ebullience (9)
- Highway 6 never emptied round the outskirts of Ashland (4,4)
- Receive top grade then switch back to get, say, a number 5 or number 4 (5,1,3)
- Acclaimed London football club important for the city (9)
- A rozzer careering after Tesla with a marble-like pattern (8)
- Animated, noisy eater annoys by eating a French baton's end (4,5)
- Cut 3K following the termination of subsidies (5)
- Separated, 2 dig raised line (5)
- '1 is for this,' according to the King, 'well, about 1' (5)
- Unanimous approval for illegal acts (2-3)
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