Cryptic crossword No 594
Sun 31 Jul 2022, set byMethuselah
Special Instructions: Originally appeared in the Independent 15/07/21. Republished with kind permission. See comment below
Across
- Initially mysterious pseudonyms shifting one's anxious feelings (8)
- Influential American wants one of Groucho's kin sent into retirement (5)
- Church stands next to empty Russian laboratory (4)
- Unusual chemise and odd robe regularly stained (10)
- Someone in The Imitation Game, perhaps? (5)
- Made from denim, Rodin's first couple of pieces took subject less seriously (7)
- Lines going around the world will snub Luther's latest theses (6)
- Parasite essentially libels medic with virus (3,3)
- Effortlessly quirky Dalí bored by a certain piece in Spain? On the contrary (7)
- Urge some lesser Pentagon characters to turn to the other side (5)
- Desperately stir acidic bits of crème fraîche? (10)
- Greek character placing ring on yours truly – much obliged! (4)
- During chorus, trumpeters play strings (5)
- Soprano picked up yeti, perhaps, as a bit of theatrical action (8)
Down
- Gadget for film or photography that's part of the machine age (6)
- Forest dweller still in its youth's a horny spirit, we hear (4)
- CIA meeting with Boris for a change, levelly maintaining pressure (8)
- Fancy peccadillo finally committed away from home (6)
- A pair of experts tackling sort of dog that can be secured (10)
- One's learned to be vigilant about roaming charges (8)
- US representative drills through ecclesiastical site (it's a source of oil) (6)
- Performers of one kind or another taking lead from tempo instead of libido (3,7)
- Cockney's extremely vigorous when holding up flight, ultimately making you the last to arrive (8)
- Big reveal sees English banker trap unknown figure by safe (8)
- Certain philosophers revolutionised science with big apple (6)
- Writer had visor and mask lifted now and again to deliver some vernacularisms (6)
- Post for Methuselah? (Letters for 26 others are enclosed here too) (6)
- Little monkeys and little apes scratching skin on crotch (4)
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