Crossword #47
19 February 2023
Skirwingle

Don't expect any themes or ninas this month; this one is entirely vanilla.


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  •  9  Chilly southern ring rudely cancel art critic (9,6)

  • 10 Clean curbs? (5,2)

  • 11 Like a little piece, but (reportedly) even ____! (7)

  • 12 Dutch dissolute explorer (5)

  • 13 A single northern bird in big city – one of no significance (9)

  • 15 Some mass marketing from yobbo after a month in Paris (4-3)

  • 17 Before drink, takes small exercise (5-2)

  • 18 Well-established Dutch bank fell (9)

  • 20 Impression of spin in the Telegraph originally (5)

  • 21 Hislop returned broken biro to capital (7)

  • 23 Comedian’s come through taking meth, unusually (7)

  • 25 Film the springs, mixed up (8,7)

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  •  1  One who sings ‘Black Bottom’ in America (4)

  •  2  Astronomy’s looking hard around good book of maps (4-6)

  •  3  ... times this singer (6)

  •  4  Increase your pace – but don’t do this to mine (4,2,2)

  •  5  Insight of officers under a copper (6)

  •  6  Dreaming fitfully between 1 and 3 (3-5)

  •  7  Long facial hair trimmed at the front (4)

  •  8  Marilyn Monroe had one bad boy upstate (6,4)

  • 12 It identifies online source of parricidal suggestion by Norman Bates, say (6,4)

  • 14 Laughing a lot at origin of song ‘Short People’ (2,8)

  • 16 Musical setting for words of one giving speech on moon (8)

  • 17 Origin of purebred ride? Gee, complicated (8)

  • 19 Sounds from noble, imposing horses when disheartened (6)

  • 20 Instigate part time support for classical concert (6)

  • 22 Harrison Ford character casually blowing wife away (4)

  • 24 Remove heart of lousy Tory leader (4)

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