Cryptic January 05, 2023 Answers

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Cryptic Crossword No. 11,305 by Bluth posted on Thursday, January 05, 2023

Across Clues

• Aquatic legend – she controls men’s swimming
• King married old woman
• No Trumps involved in Mafia family caught moving luxury goods brand
• Short breather before a dictator’s second fruitcake
• Perhaps green’s smooth for golf tour recently
• Engineers returned with unknown mineral
• Glow of pipe, crack-smoker occasionally managed to get inside
• Group abandon beauty treatment
• 150 and on strike, demonstrating power
• Maybe Corbyn’s embracing Labour’s leader – they might have clenched teeth
• Regular surfer to catch current with calm state of mind
• Singer discovered new harmony with note missing sharpness
• Bob for example, making warm and dry space for party
• Relax and allow independent solicitor to handle every alteration when case is dismissed

Down Clues

• Joan’s partner vocally supporting pub’s closely contested fixture?
• Back row reach down somehow
• Film doctor and nurse then go private
• That is the end of Sumo wrestling – champion Hakuho falls outside ring initially
• Fruit Tongan farms regularly served up
• Michael Jackson song climbing July charts essentially – it’s to do with star association
• Criminal attacks middle of fort – soldiers potentially rest here
• A 10/1 gamble on the outside – nudged into second place?
• Model runs my bath – she’s first to be stripped – it’s not true but plenty of people believe it
• Horoscope’s focus with respect to third of zodiac given sudden emphasis
• Then USA manipulated butter producer
• Understand cannula must be emptied – start to turn both taps round periodically
• See 25
• Way to make moonshine quietly
• Cliff’s content to come back before Wimbledon’s centrepiece match – it means we see less of The Shadows