Cryptic October 22, 2022 Answers
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Cryptic Crossword No. 11,241 by Quince posted on Saturday, October 22, 2022
Across Clues
- Decrease salary, with cut for a division of Human Resources
- Lover of Cleopatra many, at first, love to hate?
- Historic performance includes a couple of songs
- Move the heart of Freddie Mercury, for one
- Briefly, a Parisian hotspot cooked no red meat
- Driving test starts to exhaust learner, making stop along the way
- Mobile homes where one may retire young
- Spell words wrong here, with typos
- Drunk trades hands, having drained eggnogs, and slumps
- Sting’s opening for Simon & Garfunkel, maybe after millions
- European has the final word about pipe cleaner
- Prize led school astray
- ‘Bucket’, etc, translated right twice by one typing
- Old man takes drug when heading to adult parties extremely late
- Some depressing drinkers
- Impressed by pieces, say, editor undertook
Down Clues
- My bad review of successful chiropractic treatment
- ‘Under Control’ playing (a bit of a racket)
- Harry Kane describing length: ‘It’s just over a foot’
- More than one batted, opening with 50, leading test series
- United take a penalty
- Washing lines reportedly fastened with tags
- Time Out is almost close to debt
- ‘R’ for ‘run-of-the-mill’
- Asked out on dates, the French flee
- I’m in Journey’s End, The Sixth Sense and Rent
- Single men barred from orgy, catching flogger’s interest in passing
- Hesitate over rejecting a bachelor’s joint
- Timeless card game is trying
- Ranch dressing leaves punters discontented