Cryptic crossword No 949
Sun 22 Jan 2023, set byTwmbarlwm
Special Instructions: A Nina and a handful of solutions relate to this sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJiY55mi6DA , but aren't needed to solve the puzzle
Across
- Bashful perhaps, looking embarrassed alongside star (3,5)
- Arrival of stylish Hoover put back (6)
- Uri Geller ignoring worse press (4)
- Neither son's sporting fake diamond (10)
- Tipping this, one's mother leaves pool (6)
- Unease at waves to turn your stomach (8)
- Photographers with French city soldiers (7)
- In Vladivostok (AM), a knackered nuclear reactor (7)
- Get ale or bubbly for close friend (5,3)
- Surgically remove organ from sailor, deceased (6)
- Yam and runner beans finally flourishing for gardener (10)
- Taste a bit of nosh to take home (4)
- Send packing right into warehouse (6)
- Model ironing front of dress's elastic (8)
Down
- Ahead of setter, duck that's staggering (6,2)
- I regularly tipped tea lady in lounge (4)
- Brief quarrel in court that may lead some on (6)
- Slowing down when playing, woeful Inter sadly out (8)
- Like some green bottles, accidentally cracked? (3-3-4)
- Covered with muck, rolling around, light-brown nag (2,2,2)
- Companion following daughter, packing nothing for Saint-Tropez (6)
- Property that priest can get rid of? (10)
- Damn suit is on carpet (8)
- What could impact The Globe when editor is sacked (8)
- Boost reputation of old enemy (6)
- Evergreen comedian associated with 'Oliver!' (6)
- Tester gaping, scratching head (6)
- American's clamping fine (4)
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