Cryptic December 21, 2023 Answers

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Cryptic Crossword No. 11,605 by Bluth posted on Thursday, December 21, 2023

Across Clues

• Futile endeavour roughing up floor with sander
• Good old Bluth’s highly profitable venture?
• Tool for moving garden waste from meadow – e.g. rose bush’s first cutting
• Former partner ringing – praising …
• … crime syndicate backing plan framing group of footballers
• Finish off a bespoke costume with a hat and facial hair?
• I weep with soldiers returning to front line
• News from pilates teacher
• Beano cancelled after putting out extremely racist punchline
• Most painful – well, put your feet up
• Somehow Ally Pally discovered other bar for venue
• Surviving crew no longer appearing to be getting on
• Milan side struggle with audience?
• Means to preserve obscure terms from the jazz age – oddly forget ‘splitting’
• See 4
• Things that burst out of star’s trousers after length breaks fly

Down Clues

• See 28 Across
• Mollusc soup cooked by our chef today for starters
• Sounds like a hit from Bugsy Malone
• Putting gift outside large door – finally giving hint
• Set up arrest as practical joke
• Property in Spain changes when roof comes off
• See 30 Across
• Parodist – to some extent, aim it at original
• Wife leaving weakling for trouble-maker
• Runs Merseyside town golf shop originally
• Article in Times is junk
• You’re welcome in new amenity
• Dropped in on independent film director
• Fear and admire cycling
• Perhaps King Charles’s plausible story about a knight
• See 1 Across
• See 6 Across
• Goes off short walks