Cryptic crossword No 1,485
Mon 11 Dec 2023, set byPotoroo
Special Instructions: "Clothes Horse"
Across
- Feel setter's becoming master (6)
- What gets me going? Half-heartedly: "feet, sorta" (6)
- Very happy with stage direction, Shakespeare ultimately conceded - bear running through (9)
- House a priest wanting clothes (5)
- Canine? Mark claims recording sounded like a bird! (7)
- Storm encompassing one lake beginning to encompass sea (7)
- Gradually lessened the effectiveness of smuggling tortoiseshell? Not yet known (12)
- OK, inept crony cooks - can he do anything else? (3-5,4)
- Superhero working with leader of military in Islamic Republic (4,3)
- Climb walls of Notre-Dame with three different measures (7)
- Tea and coffee essentially rubbish (5)
- Choose poem about orchestra's penultimate conductor (9)
- Put a stop to husband fighting in heart of battle (6)
- Make beloved stop here in East London? (6)
Down
- Comedic scene involving some of Las Ketchup (6)
- Last to sneeze in sauna sadly gives you illness (6)
- Eeyore dancing around enclosure? That's startling! (3-6)
- Following a game for kids, uncle's outside, weary (7)
- Follow case inspector's chief dropped (5)
- Infection ahead of sexual encounter making breathing difficult (8)
- British Airways steward at the back to stop someone with cruel intentions? (6)
- Regular small meal at start and end of day (6)
- Crew volunteers to harbour boater perhaps, initially near island in America (9)
- 9 and 11 others from college help Australia in return (6)
- Place of honour is church, not a pub! (8)
- Carefully study Chambers, maybe, for setting (7)
- Friend eating almost all of thick soup becomes pale (6)
- Concerning accommodation lacking light primarily in the middle of nowhere (6)
- Swerve around middle of bend to reach finish (6)
- Gang's motor primarily a timeless Italian one! (5)
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