Cryptic crossword No 1,374
Mon 9 Oct 2023, set byMethuselah
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Special Instructions: Originally appeared in the Independent 14/06/22. Republished with kind permission.
Across
- See 14
- 1 mafioso pursues crime after kicking drug (3,6)
- 14-1's sphere about to absorb, er, everyone's sphere (5)
- Item worn by woman asleep next to Bond (7)
- See 24d
- Description of movement's frequently a mess if Spooner spits it out (4,13)
- A couple of cricket sides seen at intervals (2-3-3)
- 13 or 22 possibly taking over independent nation (8)
- Jelly available in tea garden (4)
- Bit of fruit leading to sinful occasion's a banana skin (7)
- Old 1 and silent 1 each losing a million (3-4)
- Did egg on uniform ultimately trigger meeting with my boss? (5)
- Close temperatures keeping characters from hiking round Thailand (5-4)
- See 9d
Down
- Important chap reportedly avoided a disputed territory when travelling north (2,3)
- Collector's item's a bloody state, I suppose! (6)
- Wet earth covering animal's lair (6)
- Avoiding both fringes, old Labour leader starts to eat next to Green (8)
- Perhaps Facebook users have seen zit burst by noon (8)
- Dangerous strain sees father and son kept apart by national government (5,4)
- Old men with power like propping up old royal (8)
- Certain artists could be 14-1s by the sound of it (4,13)
- 14-1 has time for Brussels to mature with a bit of manure in plot (9)
- What rice does for sushi eaters' sake? (8)
- Cycling star to turn and get off seat (8)
- Fickle Methuselah no longer has the hots for mimics (8)
- Cheat hanging around own goal area – 1 often seen with 10 (6)
- Group including a precise number (6)
- 14-1's spanner regularly fixing disruption to Suez Canal when one end's blocked (4,7)
- Tattooist has a change of heart relating to private area? (5)
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