Cryptic crossword No 964
Sat 28 Jan 2023, set byMethuselah
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Special Instructions: Originally appeared in the Independent 22/01/22. Republished with kind permission.
Across
- Cycling mayor's on board to make cuts (6)
- Mediums in which Korean rapper's describing a certain style (8)
- Old bishop and priest giving us daggers (5)
- Twisted version of Noël featured in dark display (4,5)
- One representing our bit of land might make it an Airbnb briefly (9)
- Having entered the Indy 500, European is exhausted (4)
- See 22
- I'm disgusted by experimental musician - change the record! (6)
- EastEnders matriarch gives up tons for a million Twitter followers? (3,3)
- Spin round to disorientate canoeist (7)
- Lawyer turned politician to direct justice system, says Spooner (4,7)
- One of many youngsters certain to pinch pennies ahead of rising rent (9)
- See 3d
- Who may change a few notes for a grand (5)
- Sign off on another order coming from señorita's quarters (8)
- Into which Icarus fell and – they say – what caused that fall? (6)
Down
- Superior nosh must be demolished with bibs (8)
- Stripping off, one with the hump needs air con fixed – not a cold drink! (9)
- How a script’s list of characters might describe 14 before line for actress (5,9)
- Good man presented with gold, silver and lead in enigmatic caskets? (7)
- Film exec secures silence over papers (9)
- Spaniard's English doesn't include special term for fireplace (5)
- Some blushes at explicit stuff (4)
- Where you may find US health care even more ridiculous (6)
- Sailor damaged a chart with rum (9)
- Traffic rising on URLs leading to site for swingers (4,5)
- Fellows regularly glimpsed Rhett and O'Hara in first half of Oscar-winning film (8)
- Neither songs nor stories will employ independent contractors (7)
- Old man Methuselah spoken of as a man of 20 (6)
- English student gets one over on cross novelist (5)
- Free tips from parents' relatives ignored (5)
- Hide after dropping trendy basin (4)
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