Cryptic crossword No 918
Fri 6 Jan 2023, set byPotoroo
Special Instructions: We recommend printing the puzzle. Eight across solutions should have a letter removed before entry into the grid, each time making a new word. Eight further solutions are thematic, lack definitions and should be entered in a consistent manner. Solvers are instructed as how to enter the thematic solutions by the removed letters. Enumerations should be ignored.
Across
- Ultimately conceive plan to smuggle gold out of Cuba (three words) (7)
- Agitate old bird visiting vet (7)
- A musician's right to replace note - they're used to drones (8)
- Belted out tune in turn (6)
- UK's inspired by one (often black) revolutionary style of theatre (6)
- Priest just after quarrels with some bishops (8)
- Variety of citrus fruit lacking rind (4)
- Earl attends grand endless revel to feast (4)
- Attitude of those close to the front (4)
- Knocked back a drink in the end and nearly plummeted (4)
- Bird's sleeping area with nested egg (4)
- First lady removing top takes nudes regularly - they'll make money (4)
- Entering in vessel around 4 (8)
- Strenuous task at home installing last piece of furniture (two words) (6)
- Guard is held tight (6)
- Clippings from both sides of stories surrounding trial (8)
- Word describing the boring hole at back of house (7)
- Snippet of French performance (7)
Down
- Educational establishment that's opportunistic to some extent (3)
- Fourteen francs spent travelling on the way (two words) (7)
- Cooks headless fish (7)
- Member of triad is described by short tape and letter from abroad (6)
- Length of Spooner's poem of the century? (7)
- Witch devours their food sloppily (four words) (11)
- Pure prowess in action? (11)
- Shout from captain - sailor hops in and out (two words) (11)
- In the morning, adult aquatic carnivore returned (7)
- Fried dish a drunkard's thrown up having eaten small amount (7)
- Conceited person, say, is consumed by too much (7)
- Screen problem (6)
- Turn up after governor evacuated (3)
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