Cryptic August 23, 2019 Answers

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Cryptic Crossword No. 10,253 by Phi posted on Friday, August 23, 2019

Across Clues

• Funny artist, not last one to take on Conservative using ridicule?
• Past accommodating the French refusal to talk
• Required guide when travelling around river – regret coming back
• Tailless fawn seen in wood
• Wrong to have Edith awaiting a date
• Applying green activity
• It now has less to offer to the corresponding process
• Become unable to see reduced mischievous sprite
• Frustrate positioning of bed in school
• Most accurate record overlooks Dutch collection of animals
• Request for payment expected to produce notes?
• Work – termination of contract – start to require benefit
• Tenor initially longing to appear in Hollywood musical
• Surprised comment about rumour in music? Uncertain stuff
• Interrupt, always being taken aback about story
• Newspaper pursues strange lights in the sky

Down Clues

• Endpoint of birthdays? That is mostly parties
• Director raving endlessly in grip of Chinese philosophical concept
• Stiff, cold, decapitated
• Blokes ride a bike, cycling in mild mood
• Going Heavenward, fellow’s embracing standard angel
• Escapes bedtime?
• One chap uplifted about old Biblical heroine
• European with grace to retain information in crisis
• Religious service in German for English playwright
• Give up as lost bag, if dropped in grass
• Small dog – keeps one in lap this way
• Skilful reduction of surplus in party (American)
• Waste visit, being interrupted by joker
• Watch volume: one small volume further reduced?
• Favouring occupying a new type of stage
• Love contributing to guy’s burden