Cryptic crossword No 1,389
Fri 20 Oct 2023, set byMethuselah
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Special Instructions: Originally appeared in the Independent 28/07/22. Republished with kind permission.
Across
- Abbess and abbot are both in this order (12)
- Means of contacting spook needs approval from Paris and Berlin (5)
- American making plans picked up board game piece (9)
- One dropped into Manhattan on way to diner, perhaps (3,4)
- What's regularly clean and then wet again? (7)
- Religious group rejecting Methuselah's creed and age, initially (1,1,1,1)
- Primitive vehicle stuck outside cabin shifted with tool (9)
- Star celeb, misplacing accessories (9)
- ...did sport with next to nothing on (4)
- Old record used in Act I's clumsily cleaned up for theatre (7)
- Fat cat abandoned by banks poised to be banged up (7)
- European member is in government doing woeful work (9)
- Shot that might be seen in frame during Christmas season (5)
- Poor workers getting mistreated (con men set it up, bypassing union) (12)
Down
- Foreign film's a new one on me (5)
- Monumental bit of stonework that’s built up on Hampstead Heath (6)
- One meant to receive tablets gets through Red Sea with God’s backing, somehow (9)
- All of Elis James' content revolves around some post found online (5)
- Unwanted guest less polite after putting away first unit of beer (8)
- Heading off injury, first sign of danger and I'll pop into a ball (9)
- Heartless killjoy getting annoyed as comic speaks (6)
- Showing true colours, posh editor supports this paper but not the i (6)
- Blender yielding a meal during tea-time (9)
- Attack of giggles possibly showing Bottom up in middle of June, for example? (9)
- Little thing wriggling around in utero without name (8)
- Cheeky underwear getting Frenchman's nose up (6)
- City player coming off, according to commentator (6)
- One armed and dangerous person has it in for you, we hear (6)
- Twitter CEO helped its rivals prosper at first (5)
- Watering hole gets locals tipsy on a regular basis (5)
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