Cryptic December 18, 2021 Answers
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Cryptic Crossword No. 10,978 by Methuselah posted on Saturday, December 18, 2021
Across Clues
- Lovemaking superpower shown by one in bed
- Bishop running rings round second-rate primate
- Far-flung travel agency picked up old colonel from Egypt
- Rooney’s wife resolved anger with a Vardy with no end of ingenuity
- Romeo leaves his love half naked in a cell
- Aged following split and went grey
- Being faithful, new church gets behind Christian era on Earth
- Parrots pushing third of seeds to front
- Some land a part in Layer Cake after being called back
- Heavy hitters from police taking Labour leader for oddly Tory meals
- Avoid road using this, maybe
- Terribly useless Methuselah cut a tragic figure
- Would-be politicians have blunt, sharing the last of it with girlfriends
- See 1 Down
- A pair of Spaniards in German administration
- Malign American’s behind trouble
Down Clues
- Remake of ER filmed down under leaves a lot to be desired
- Mad judge could give such a short sentence
- In the dark and naked on the moon before delivery of some clothes
- Love Actually expresses a point in speech
- Are they wrinkly after another length in deep pool, perhaps?
- They might take bungs off leading cricketers
- US state littered with chasms – not this one
- Old dramatist’s peculiar ire used to inspire one of his characters
- Troublesome warmonger abandons front before charge
- Expenses overwhelming department under Patel, Hammond and May?
- It’s imperative to get under end of quilt every so often
- What kind of academic follows standard from St Andrews’ course?
- Island’s in the grip of dismal tabloids