Cryptic crossword No 1,576
Thu 25 Jan 2024, set bySkirwingle
Special Instructions: CAUTION FOR OVERSEAS SOLVERS: Contains Britishisms.
Across
- London transport bribes oiks to get knotted (5,5)
- Some baby teeth bit? Eight of them (4)
- Clinician with medical procedure cancelled delivery (4-3)
- Attacks promotions for Japanese pillboxes? (7)
- Nonconformist tramp cycling (4)
- Old London transport unexpectedly snubbed? Yes (5,5)
- Clobbers earl with a spanner on the way north to Chelsea (9,6)
- Totalitarian leader emerging from giant cathouse, say, turning right at the end (3,7)
- Zip caught in knot of hair’s a silly mistake (4)
- Solid fuel booster’s first stage on rocket at first quite volatile (7)
- What’s sold at a German spa auction by a disreputable fellow? (1,3,3)
- Help a bishop estimate temperature (4)
- Dune’s transport from a tree reportedly full of insects (5,5)
Down
- One attempt to buy in the same place (4)
- Clasp spectacles entering British church (6)
- A drunkard outside heading to cup tie (5)
- Bravo! Use oil & start to fathom out alternative power sources (8)
- Bow down to take greeting in the rear (6)
- Avoided outskirts of Bromley and parts of East Dulwich, clutching permit (8)
- Wild basset is one of them (6)
- Old train company – intermittently viable – supported by railway kickbacks (7)
- Protection for consumer, one in bed & breakfast (3)
- Brace for change – you reportedly head for Boötes or Ursa Minor (4,3)
- Stealing rude slogans (3,5)
- Pause in activity of Napoleon director, with unknown in place of le général, at first (8)
- Decline section of web browser (3)
- Vessel holding olden-times animal (6)
- Upcoming refit covers toaster’s top loaf cover for Cockney (6)
- Force to make awfully big ’ole (6)
- Film Björk’s initial self-declaration of sexuality (5)
- Theatre awards, not new, for plays (4)
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