Cryptic February 23, 2021 Answers
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Cryptic Crossword No. 10,722 by Hob posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Across Clues
- Novelist introducing last letters from Fanny Brawne in Time Out
- Mad? As mad as Fanny, perhaps
- Clues note Psyche and suchlike, for starters
- “Bit of magic from outside right,” said Mark Wright
- Writers putting Nightingale in Berkeley Square originally
- 13 week period of not quite mutual admiration finally shattered
- Surveillance job with second coffee option provides clue to theme
- Free guitarist? Being given one for nothing gets rude rejection
- Stick, ultimately one used in running slope
- Deny struggling with Melancholy and Indolence initially, performing as a handsome youth
- Chain or whip, when not extremely penal
- Was happy with new pen?
- Near neighbour of Douglas’s, about to get some 6A
- Russian city cloaked in returning thick smog
- John recited with some force, that’s clear
- Playwright unknown in China?
Down Clues
- Fans missing “dark beer” drinks
- Poet briefly working as comedian
- Good person briefly supporting a Lake Poet’s most lofty expression
- Linklater’s content to respond cheekily
- Win audience with small number that we hear might be Grecian
- Spurs game I must lampoon, ironically at first
- Setter blocked in by bus before lunchtime, cycling in Romanian city
- Retract Nancy’s article, for instance
- Former postman, one now living abroad
- Suddenly gets angry, obscure fish appearing in reverse
- Male or female Lydians reimagined by poet
- Making new sort of punk, met Shaggy!
- Post from one we love
- Heads are those of Cupid and Psyche, inscribed “To Apollo”
- Part of 16 needing some bottle – and cheek!
- Bits of old verse periodically appearing as part of today’s theme