Quick crossword No 169
Fri 15 Mar 2024, set byMallimack
Special Instructions: Designed for some friends as a quicker cryptic accessible to beginners wanting a wee stretch. I'd love your feedback on whether I've actually achieved an easier crossword this time! And on anything else that strikes you.
Across
- Casanova goes down, having swapped ends (7)
- Loud, wet thing is someone who can't be relied on (5)
- Very masculine territory (5)
- Going off cleaning after cocaine's faded away (7)
- I'll glint & bang, tossing around hot, unexplained luminescence (4,9)
- French lady's going back inside them, adamantly (6)
- Managed police team: foul (6)
- Half of energy's spent summarising this exact point (4-5-4)
- How Page, Jones and Bonham's bandmate introduced himself as a new member (7)
- Comes up to adjust snare (5)
- Sloppy topping sounds dire-ish! (5)
- He checks you out, coquettish at first, then more bloodless (7)
Down
- Primarily, some cad – randy, useless, broke – that can't get no love from me (5)
- Spoke with Southern style in upwardly mobile district of Mid Atlantic state (7)
- Free discussion about busted lip (13)
- Abdicate after monarchist rule's constrained society (6)
- Run a mischief, crazily full of testosterone: they might give payback (5,8)
- I bail out, giving an excuse (5)
- Promised to finish swallowing: choke twice ultimately (7)
- Mallimack gobbling, discharging anonymous assignation (7)
- Bread that's metaphorical when morel's mixed in (7)
- Hater's made of sour lemons: right to go higher (6)
- One monkeys around, elevating old-fashioned tone (5)
- Horrible stare's a stunning weapon (5)
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