Cryptic crossword No 2,054
Fri 25 Oct 2024, set byMethuselah
Special Instructions: Originally appeared in the Independent 13/04/23. Several other Independent setters are named in clues. Republished with kind permission.
Across
- Missing the old days tons, Gila moved back to suburbia (9)
- What stops boozer going back? (5)
- Like champion sacrificing bishop left on table? (7)
- One travelling round city tackles left-hand side of Angel's puzzle (7)
- Shabby English premier rejected in Knut cryptic (7)
- European people called out lazy jab (7)
- Eccles taps out things you need to see (10)
- See 6d
- Methuselah's put out by tricky Nimrod - he's an evil genius (2,2)
- Weird pop artist left with Marilyn originally (10)
- Third party cover will protect British bloke from claims in the end (3,4)
- Raider’s responsible for these raids on supply (7)
- After X-rated complaint, Bluth regularly performing something blue? (7)
- Ordinary firm welcomes soldiers with inferior credentials (2,1,4)
- Quiet person getting on old-fashioned device (5)
- A new Filbert could be a bit of a thinker (4,5)
Down
- Island's gold located in capsized vessel (5)
- Tell tales of Serpent swallowing own tail (5)
- Set up mechanism for car lover (8)
- Hereditary earl comes up in draw started by government (7)
- Stage performer getting a rise out of Tees? On the contrary (7)
- Hob gives off this country air (4,2,4)
- Where Dill is in her element (9)
- Hint of marijuana in Hoskins’s nether regions makes for nasty surprise (9)
- Joining blue party, fellow secures seat (7,2)
- Making dignified exit, nudists initially leave jewellery behind! (9)
- Perform stuff from Quince in Globe... it holds up entrance (8)
- A lot of weapons or just one club (7)
- Lord Byron possibly less than polite (1,3,3)
- Learner uncovering top compiler Phi, perhaps (6)
- Rodríguez's greeting returned a Hawaiian one (5)
- Quality material provided by Tyrus at intervals (5)
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