Cryptic crossword No 2,369
Thu 10 Apr 2025, set byFez
Special Instructions: "Gratitude" by Fez
Across
- Whip-round gives you more than enough to get something considered good (3)
- How, periodically, soils and rocks are newly formed: in-class project? (10)
- Ace fighter pilot summoned by King (5)
- Theatre and music, say, captivates lad and is firing their interest (9)
- Harassment – not the first time government cuts agricultural aid (10)
- Avoid ejaculating over backing singer (4)
- Vocally petitions religious types (5)
- Endemic illness originally treated with antibiotics? (8)
- Throwing away recipe – cross, somewhat gutted, and most resentful (8)
- Half-heartedly shout downstairs (5)
- Ex-postie might have got it for taking people's parcels? (4)
- Removal of waste from an international drilling base (10)
- One bike manufacturer, cycling guru's business? (9)
- Mediterranean island announced possible results of infrastructure investment (5)
- Atrocious weather's seen on Friday; it's like being in a river (10)
- Noodles oddly falling in lines (3)
Down
- Social club I organised under pressure (6)
- Edict presented by Lord Erskine (5)
- Vigorously hugs tourist's waist, in typically Gallic gesture (5)
- Erica's outside Centre for Psychological Wellbeing (6)
- Restless herons gathering round, towards the coast (7)
- Drink we must drink at home (4)
- One who scored from cross, initially (7)
- Naked Tesco assistant on the counter – ultimately one to avoid (6)
- Extremely illogical side of Spock's character (3)
- Failing to grip tightly (4)
- Old man having a drop of sherry before bath (3)
- Revolutionary scientific body: what's next in line? (4)
- Underlay, maybe made out of 50% polystyrene at its core (3)
- Strange amphibian with no tail (3)
- Awfully messy at last night's practice (6)
- Product for hair, bubbly clear liquid, essentially (7)
- Accommodation's pricier if you want it close to Christmas, we've discovered – fair game? (3,4)
- Ration books left in the van (3)
- The exhausted grunts returned to protect Navy Seal (6)
- Fashionable emporium's opening up on southern Paris's equivalent of The Strand (6)
- Rack bearing emperor's clothes? (5)
- Over a hundred objections for starters, papers state (5)
- Move from place to place in Portugal, riding donkey (4)
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