Cryptic August 17, 2021 Answers
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Cryptic Crossword No. 10,872 by Dill posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Across Clues
- Young female writer before detox essentially wasted
- Study follows boring old writer
- Mad idiot picked up a jerk
- Promise breaking taxman
- Inventor lacking edge retrospectively
- Leave coat beside Irish lake
- Anorak wearer possibly teaches at Hogwarts
- Global traveller detained by more insignificant society lawmongers
- Worried ram tails one crying ‘wolf!’
- Masses of text describing conflict
- Adopts appropriate child
- Date an Italian chef regularly
- Communist spy’s early flight
- Became less fooled when son replaced first daughter
Down Clues
- Picked up plant expected to produce fungus
- Legal representative’s brief coordination interrupted by senior investigator
- Serve into, or tip out, fragrant mixture
- Some vegan ice-cream is quite pleasant
- Drive off revolting social outcast
- Offends underworld boss with emotional outbursts
- Arctic underground line
- Mathematical indicator of negative balance perhaps
- I’m getting round America on board stock car
- A news room broadcast for lady athletes
- Southern dish for pepper
- Changed course after Ascot extremely harshly criticised
- Place where men go when river floods home
- Get high through exotic dances
- Sexy smelling like a Tesla owner?
- Attraction of up and coming protégée