Cryptic crossword No 1,244
Sun 9 Jul 2023, set byMethuselah
Special Instructions: Originally appeared in the Independent 23/03/22. Republished with kind permission. 27 + 4 should be (6,6)
Across
- Sort of seed that might follow Open for a spell (6)
- See 27
- Off bingo, we're all doing strip poker (6)
- Sensational Republican fiddle covered up by Washington (8)
- Old royal fighting legendary boxer? Then there'll be fireworks! (6)
- Fan urging Queen to be more like Nirvana? (8)
- Better witness finally recalling reg number right (8)
- Little raver dances round Methuselah, a person of some advanced age (4,9)
- Biblical son getting some stick, we hear (4)
- Long year on International Space Station essentially very hard (8)
- Spare piano brought in for Part 3 of Get Back (8)
- Original new musical heading to West End (6)
- Veterans make relationship public, but not at first (3,5)
- Do without - resisting id, then? (6)
- Soldier heartlessly sent back makes news (6)
- Old President Trump gets books by English author (12)
Down
- Speculative work discussed a couple of hypothetical variants... (3-2)
- ...another is turning up with gamma, oddly (5)
- Symbols in gospel linked with one or two older books (8)
- One's used to Count Dracula ripping layers off and biting through bits of muscle (6)
- Old aunt and gran upset a relative of ours (9)
- Perhaps skinny superhero's clothing falls off in the middle of deli (9)
- Might they find fault with your setter, potentially giving grid one star? (3,8)
- See 15a
- Given this, heir's now drunk on power (9)
- Mean or represent or merely mean to represent (5,3)
- It's Austen on one side, latterly, or the Queen if you turn it over (6)
- Some uncouth rumours creating buzz (5)
- Fussy eater kicked off when given the wrong starter (5)
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