Cryptic crossword No 974
Fri 3 Feb 2023, set byPotoroo
Special Instructions: All solutions (save one) can be found in Chambers
Across
- Insect on end of log is a moth (6)
- Doctor found in complete confusion (7)
- Scatterbrain's revolutionary greeting after husband leaves: "Party time!" (4,5)
- Swan crosses a river to get fruit (5)
- Story covering English capital? (5)
- Nosily ask about skeletal fusion (9)
- Pet section replaced by queen in an artificial tomb-like structure (10)
- Flightless bird shelters by medicinal plant (4)
- Importance of throw catcher initially dropped (4)
- Giant growth - he has to take time off (10)
- Nurse to constantly worry about European male figure (9)
- Sauce some dollop on zucchini (5)
- Finally after hour boarding leaves Earth (5)
- Continued dancing without being seen (9)
- Jedi Master I'm fighting gained entry with Force (7)
- Last of bacon's in cooked butty for local (6)
Down
- Submersible hit extremely hardy underside of James' peach at sea (11)
- Large predator runs after Tom in Spain? (5)
- Fuss grips back of kitchen after bit of fish turns up in trifle (8)
- Floating marker by tip of unseen rock we smashed (5,4)
- Rewrite old clues for 'mouth' (6)
- Perform energetically to room supporting Scottish children wanting independence (9)
- At last notice bees' decline (3)
- Edible seaweed in colourful varieties (4)
- Dad's trusted to mingle with many celebrities (4-7)
- Fairy queen removing one strange plant that's foul smelling (5,4)
- Inspection of toilet floor no good, muck ultimately found inside (4-5)
- Top of column 1 seen in section of book (8)
- Two rouse briefly, looking up - so cute! (6)
- Loud bird might start to nest when adult heads south (4)
- Shellfish in patch reef ocasionally seen (5)
- Pilgrimage's leader becoming tense giving you crown (3)
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