Cryptic crossword No 1,479
Fri 8 Dec 2023, set byPotoroo
Special Instructions: "Dinner Party"
Across
- Chef's instructions: boil rice with poached egg initially (6)
- A lot of old cold beans unopened (6)
- Hot feeling verbalised in anger (7)
- Upset detective burst out (7)
- Herb May possibly put in tossed medley salad ultimately removed (5,5)
- Almost the final serving of cheese mixture (4)
- Flirt with husband before sex and just after (3,2)
- Awkwardly struggle with fish (8)
- Exaggerate old poetry lines (8)
- Stops bouncing around and relaxes (5)
- One in front is conceited (4)
- After working, retired one changed focus (10)
- Reserve member aboard English ship (7)
- Kind of rock song played with his uke regularly (7)
- Probably fifty-one thousand on train on the Fourth of July (6)
- Each dessert covered in a shell of chocolate (6)
Down
- Get up around noon to wash (5)
- Yell at model "How cute!" (4,3)
- Drew and Rose are in this extraordinary tape sent about Sweden (4,5)
- Greeting mass in church with the sound of bell (5)
- Craftsman inspired by sweetheart is annoyed (7)
- Smiles around exhausted hungover fishermen (9)
- Bird of prey from angry flock missing tail, sadly (9)
- Greatly enjoy oneself at bar primarily with everyone beneath unfinished shelter (4,1,4)
- Revealing work with peculiar penguin (7,2)
- Texted "Are you OK apprehending man exploding in a frenzy?" (3,4)
- Frank is wrong about before (7)
- Run close to Russian river in the country (5)
- Avoid kiss, covering up large issue (5)
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