Cryptic crossword No 1,465
Sat 2 Dec 2023, set byPotoroo
Special Instructions: "Spontaneous Combustion"
Across
- Awards zero marks (6)
- Awful pest invading US causing troubles (6)
- Imagine funny red cat turning over (5,2)
- He escaped trouble on islands moving north (7)
- Father had potato cooked immediately (2,3,4,2,1,3)
- Laugh initially at highly amusing hummingbird going around (4)
- Wife precooked wild bird (10)
- Outward look of a vegetable in spring (10)
- Old area on coasts of Honolulu's island (4)
- Finally returning to tucking into mixed nuts with table salt (4,3,3,5)
- Redirected search for a cracking New York team (7)
- Tiny doll accompanies daughter for a couple of days (7)
- Lively one kept in iron enclosure (6)
- Aquatic animals to rest after swimming (6)
Down
- Spooner's paper exchange in candy store (5,4)
- Stars entertaining millions in crowds (6)
- Prove a sun collapsing leads to this (9)
- One in French joint is not with it (5)
- Mixed signals initially before fit of anger began (8)
- Temperature elevated in part of the body (5)
- District's borders have winding passageway in desert (5,6)
- Fudge returned with tip cut off (11)
- Show how cryptically? (6,3)
- Certainly raising attention about a lab animal (5,4)
- Ones who take chances in game capturing bishop left with rooks on both sides (8)
- Most adventurous topless first-born (6)
- Individual avoiding large burn (5)
- Portion of fajitas typically delicious (5)
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