Cryptic August 28, 2022 Answers
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Cryptic Crossword No. 1,696 by Brunel posted on Sunday, August 28, 2022
Across Clues
- Aimless, wandering girl
- Superficial cut in former Murdoch organisation
- Don’s turned over in bed
- Wide-ranging terror grips soldiers by unwalled camp
- Redeveloped area until left by one side
- Part of deck sees action
- Like the Sphinx, reportedly, if accepted
- Brazen stripping after dance causes annoyance
- Space age turned on first of Apollos
- Swimmer shockingly flashing around pier – not very good
- Unpackaged setters’ fags – nice, laid back smoke
- Being led, struggling to win
- Prevents editor spinning the likes of Saddam
- Rona Lee harassed another girl
Down Clues
- Rising corporation poaching American banker’s design
- Country that’s ravaged vital area
- Aluminium driver taken below bunker, possibly, or tree
- Phone company’s partial withdrawal of help package
- Basked in a French club, having cast off clothing
- Finally serve ace, then service finding net
- Rise to attend one brief encounter
- Ellen MacArthur’s craft headed up island on blowy night
- Writer to yearn for goddess
- Ancient sea-creatures with shells, say, paladins picked up
- Late for Lent?
- Sprinklers keep initially-trimmed grass high
- Future queen, perhaps
- Rain ensues when Her Majesty attends event
- City of Leipzig, in East Germany, evacuated at outset
- So, maybe Shrek’s sent up