Cryptic crossword No 891
Mon 19 Dec 2022, set byMethuselah
Special Instructions: Originally appeared in the Independent 18/12/21. Republished with kind permission.
Across
- Lovemaking superpower shown by one in bed (6)
- Bishop running rings round second-rate primate (6)
- Far-flung travel agency picked up old colonel from Egypt (4)
- Rooney's wife resolved anger with a Vardy with no end of ingenuity (3,7)
- Romeo leaves his love half-naked in a cell (6)
- Aged following split and went grey (8)
- Being faithful, new church gets behind Christian era on Earth (9)
- Parrots pushing third of seeds to front (4)
- Some land a part in Layer Cake after being called back (4)
- Heavy hitters from police taking Labour leader for oddly Tory meals (9)
- Avoid road using this, maybe (3-5)
- Terribly useless Methuselah cut a tragic figure (6)
- Would-be politicians have blunt, sharing the last of it with girlfriends (10)
- See 1d
- A pair of Spaniards in German administration (6)
- Malign American's behind trouble (6)
Down
- Remake of ER filmed down under leaves a lot to be desired (7,4)
- Mad judge could give such a short sentence (5)
- In the dark and naked on the moon before delivery of some clothes (7)
- Love Actually expresses a point in speech (6)
- Are they wrinkly after another length in deep pool, perhaps? (3,6)
- They might take bungs off leading cricketers (7)
- US state littered with chasms – not this one (13)
- Old dramatist's peculiar ire used to inspire one of his characters (9)
- Troublesome warmonger abandons front before charge (7)
- Expenses overwhelming department under Patel, Hammond and May? (2-5)
- It's imperative to get under end of quilt every so often (7)
- What kind of academic follows standard from St Andrews' course? (6)
- Island's in the grip of dismal tabloids (5)
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