Cryptic crossword No 1,696
Tue 2 Apr 2024, set byMethuselah
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Special Instructions: Originally appeared in the Independent 08/09/22 (12 across is now out of date). Republished with kind permission.
Across
- Old show using a "them and us" trope reinvented (3,9)
- Tailless breed crossed with mongrels to make pointers (7)
- Exotic stores containing unknown seafood (7)
- See 26d
- Sturgeon caught with line and later skinned for camp? (10)
- Garden area quiet when the news comes on (5)
- Tim Burton's first film for kids introduces this country to initially remote city (8)
- Naked baby boomers start to jive around – Methuselah's even more bubbly than this (8)
- See 22
- American made a minister, somehow circumventing the usual channels? (10,5)
- German vehicle would be sound if it had a wheel (4)
- Disrespect Radiohead's In Rainbows? On the contrary! (7)
- Awkward fling gotten over with short ones (7)
- Recon specialist ditching uniform and ID holder outside Germany’s police HQ (8,4)
Down
- Pieces of ephemera heaped around old ladies' rooms (5)
- Show your backside – though I never do (4)
- Article in Le Monde leads to secret agents feeling extremely exposed (6)
- Far from popular CEO tries to mingle (8)
- European people will bring down current wise guy (5)
- Salesperson breaks verbal contract made up for customers (9)
- Good thing Pussy and agent Bond changed a bit right before the end (4,7)
- Your setter's not above rejigging past clue, which is risky (11)
- Straighten out joint with doctor (4)
- Time machine pulling in three different directions is late arriving (9)
- Crash the baby shower (4)
- Heir's beginning song and dance that might make Queen cough up (8)
- Sort of emissions vehicle cap cut by 50% (6)
- Finalists in lawless melee recalled extreme fight (3-2)
- Someone telling you where to go's a woman after my own heart (5)
- Period drama with parts in wrong order creates a gap in education (8)
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