Cryptic December 19, 2019 Answers

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Cryptic Crossword No. 10,354 by Punk posted on Thursday, December 19, 2019

Across Clues

• Flower queen of India with posh diamond rings, say?
• Hard to escape cucumber fed to maggot, say, back in food chain
• Struck having taken a swing, second used sponge
• Two-dimensional misogynist with power quick to backtrack
• See 13
• Sex had for breakfast?
• Pope reportedly going commando on holiday, long weapon thrown about
• A western figure briefly clear of the seabed
• One looking for a catch first gone missing from earring, perhaps?
• Go through on one’s last carriage?
• See 6
• Footballer’s forbidden fruit, might you say?
• Sweet male is in formal attire, heading off for retirement
• Procurers snatching right tarts up!
• A shoe perfect in the end – that’s lucky
• Find bank book

Down Clues

• Type of architecture spread far and wide, though not originally
• First album penned by ’80s band
• Asian river where freezing people found topless?
• Crabby types taking one’s arm off
• Why kissing’s not recommended in the bar?
• Tommy and others are climbing after huge bird on African peak
• Resident who’s gone abroad in old steamer coming out of Cowes, reportedly?
• Python’s quarry, leathery skin in pig and bird
• Criminal taking fat cut is in the money
• Great local talk, but not entirely left uplifted
• Again provide side-splitting Greek witticism
• Bone marrow, usually in leg, is initially used up
• Animal in cool river
• Unknown river in old country