Cryptic crossword No 1,268
Wed 26 Jul 2023, set byPotoroo
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Special Instructions: All solutions can be found in Chambers
Across
- Perhaps puma's number limited by captain wanting power (12)
- Bitterness mostly obtained from apple juice (5)
- Friendly small rascal - one wearing fancy coat (9)
- Weather forecasting on camera broadcast at end of day (9)
- Irish festival wildlife I saw: squirrels! (4)
- Matador's home in eastern South America (6)
- Liver oddly from India officer sent back (4,4)
- Brute is bored by that man's classic dancing (8)
- Chin and teeth originally included in food options at McDonald's? (6)
- Focus of witty thing said when someone passes some sheep (4)
- Funny note from Georgia, America about love on Hawaii (9)
- Dwarf-like creature he follows to end of paddock returned alone (9)
- Surrounding meadow, festival marked primarily as red letter? (5)
- We left spellcaster to bottle special complex root while constantly growing plants (12)
Down
- Father involved in drunken romance with bearded singer (9)
- Hill bordering city - the former capital of Slovenia (5)
- Large mess caused by dim duck thrashing, restrained by blokes (4-6)
- Trained nurse protecting island of bears (6)
- Money Conservative raised to support male cobblers (8)
- Fabric often found in silk pants (4)
- Lie about largely red rodent - a pest that prefers the warmth (8)
- Ditch two thirds of dinosaur skeleton? (4)
- Marvellous sunrise essentially blotted out by towering peak in Scotland producing darkness (10)
- Japanese game snubbed Pikachu? No, silly! (8)
- Dividing exhausted solvers, Umpire and Liari in the end must cut expression that's technically correct (9)
- What tourist did with starter of seafood cooked with gas (8)
- Bachelor wearing sharp watch chain (6)
- Small songbird with one small monkey (4)
- Champion wrestler from Australia first person to incorporate ankle lock ultimately (5)
- Invention bolstering performer's original dance move (4)
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