Cryptic crossword No 838
Mon 21 Nov 2022, set byHex
Special Instructions: Theme revealed in reply to first comment below. Word count for 26a should read 1, 2, 5
Across
- Could be silly and dim, perhaps (3-3)
- Book rooms (8)
- Alien follows map leading to Mars, perhaps (6)
- Sally and Dolly err grievously (8)
- They fly through the air, with or without 13 (6)
- Perennial herb, gathered in a smaller quantity (8)
- Ginger wine? (3)
- Cinders recalls losing some sleep (6)
- For starters, king eats the chicken, having uncorked plum sauce (7)
- Abandon 13 (6)
- Half of whisky in vault (3)
- Carl ate a stew from the menu (8)
- Fabricate foundation? (6)
- I left after good rest and then you started stroppily (8)
- Embrace strange cult before church (6)
- Most distant meteors crashed at the beginning of time (8)
- Poet has time to drink (6)
Down
- Ptolemy's charter? (8)
- Grant turned on people in rant (8)
- Worry over job's intricate structure (8)
- Abhor riding trousers - awful (6)
- Becalm rioting bevy (6)
- Team stops quarrel eventually (6)
- Occasionally silly website is most artful (6)
- Spooner's important opinion is something to chew on (7)
- Spot almost all of bees returning (3)
- Strange island (3)
- Pearl worried about everyone maintaining distance (8)
- Role model in various leotards (8)
- Breaks stolen picture (8)
- End of road rage is in trouble (6)
- I'm a sucker for nothingness (6)
- Truck contains exercise mat (6)
- Hunts birds noisily (6)
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