Cryptic crossword No 438
Thu 5 May 2022, set byBluejacket
Special Instructions: Alternative Title: "Ungentlemanly Proletarian"—I hope the Bard enjoys this one. :)
Across
- Deprived with gruel in screwing ones in need (15)
- Defenders' record covers loss at war (9)
- Computer parts in C with modern speed (5)
- Misguided doubt gets one to offer more (6)
- One sailed past choppy sea at right of maps (7)
- Support for China as defence on board? (10)
- Put on white espadrilles and rider's caps (4)
- One used to strike the first in major chord? (4)
- Dear Henry wasn't wrong re solver's friend (4,6)
- This time and place might be Utopia (7)
- Celestial harps played rounds here, in the end (6)
- Unfit, hot prince in Ethiopia (5)
- Some lilies Cynthia posed in hornbills' wings (9)
- More men lay rapt by feasts' amazing things (15)
Down
- Wears staff inside, mismatched below the belt (15)
- Sold drugs in empty lot narcs overlooked (5)
- Disguised in casualwear and untanned pelt (7)
- Prefer a redfish somewhat undercooked (4)
- Dusk climber steals French art ahead of thief? (10)
- Destructive bug in place at back of throat (6)
- Sincere, in France and Spain he spreads belief (9)
- Bad English duke's in chains; serf takes the vote (15)
- In chorus, singer close to belting air (10)
- Throw off with spiciness in Asian plant (9)
- Republic's aim: to be reformed with care (7)
- One special hate reserved for Ares' aunt (6)
- Performer's poor 'rock art' is taking risk (5)
- Surrealist painter's partial odalisque (4)
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