Cryptic December 22, 2023 Answers
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Cryptic Crossword No. 11,606 by Phi posted on Friday, December 22, 2023
Across Clues
- Former Poet Laureate associated with Christmas pudding?
- Farm attendant fixed soil, removing nitrogen?
- Again atop rocks in part of South America
- Imagine French are enthralled by Augustus
- Speculation those people kept about soldiers
- Former PM in truncated article, leader dropped by Observer
- Fairground attractions free every Saturday at the outset
- Rocks cooling Earth repeatedly from around 30 million years ago
- Horse in shock couple of rounds – it’s trailing
- Suggest I should fill job
- Confirm accommodating a boy at a particular time of year
- Performer is associated with time in role (not lead)
- Democrat leading schism in vague movement
- Air not at first gusty, not at first in an unbalanced way
- Amount of film about flat deserted US city
- Seeing King flee, make certain to follow
Down Clues
- Transplant plants, say, and store
- Stupid couple of articles probing passing fashion
- Raunchy days with girl, embracing grand pathway to heaven or hell?
- Number in G & S, on reflection
- Disorder in a handcar – a scorpion?
- Trivial insult son dismissed
- Most of vulgar physicians beginning to eat variety of fruit
- Uncomfortable involving one in effort to confuse
- Style of singing that could give you a carol tour
- Musically irregular concoction of harp and disco
- Left work initially with a Parisienne – very auspicious!
- Revamped plainer confectionery
- Things protecting quiet farming areas – farmer’s heading away
- Unusual tense used in this country’s English
- Spoken sentence provides word for ‘herb’
- Bit of greenery, perhaps, giving extra heart to another colour