Crossword #48
29 March 2023
Skirwingle

Great scott! This is heavy – it's very nearly the end of the month, I almost ran out of time!

EDITED: a couple of times actually. FFS, I should send these things to a test solver before uploading them.


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  •  1  Give over nice denim trousers (4)

  •  3  Agricultural labourers, but not veg workers (4)

  •  6  Spirit’s no good in brewing ale (5)

  • 10 Film about new guys having to rhythmically recite spelling? (11)

  • 11 Very big (not small) tank (3)

  • 12 Away kit? Do better! (8)

  • 14 Fruit bat at first extremely eager, then really gutted (5)

  • 17 Better hear about lithe dancing (9)

  • 18 Seed of some heartless fellas (5)

  • 19 Beside river, eat out and throw up (5)

  • 21 Not very feminine uniform, now Lynam’s getting changed (9)

  • 23 One McFly member’s album really transports you at first (5)

  • 24 Spin is blocking genuine retaliation (8)

  • 27 Have a bit of clownfish (3)

  • 28 Doris, a chap and I get kinky – it’s supposed to turn us on (11)

  • 30 World première at last: Hockney’s first paintings inside (5)

  • 31 Get blow, provided that boyfriend’s coming round (4)

  • 32 Work a large stone (4)

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  •  1  Comb jelly or tench Poe disturbed when Hill Valley’s clock stopped, they say (10)

  •  2  Conservative Party’s leading dwarf (3)

  •  4  Turns out, stirring a couple of units in may be wholesome (10)

  •  5  South Kesteven, Elmbridge & Waverley leaders are not on the same plane (4)

  •  6  Perhaps recasts Claudia Wells? (7)

  •  7  Cabinet minister overlooking scattered remnants, cut American regimes (11)

  •  8  Awkward idiot doesn’t start a jump (4)

  •  9  Parent’s boob’s seen better days (4,2)

  • 13 Coach, taking bearing, leaves here when it’s pouring (3-8)

  • 15 Disgruntled daughter & old fellow following after friend of McFly, M. (7,3)

  • 16 Circular letter from NYC, in arrangement with CIA cell (10)

  • 20 Something relaxing in house that is steaming, with part of body immersed (3,4)

  • 22 Shadow player to spoil French wine (6)

  • 25 In Paris, I might take passable crack (4)

  • 26 Fish bits of epoxy resin out of angelic child... (4)

  • 29 ...not so angelic one is involved in oversimplification (3)

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