Cryptic May 12, 2023 Answers
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Cryptic Crossword No. 11,414 by Phi posted on Friday, May 12, 2023
Across Clues
- Servant cleans round rear of room, taking less than instant
- One leading chess player passing through station in disgrace
- I’ll be enthralled by curve on vessel at sea or vessel aloft
- Stubborn character brought about a couple of days’ confusion
- Deterioration of thatching with observation of late?
- Director getting behind sickly staff
- Mother and leader married – one year later, coining it
- Popular comedy item, though half-hearted
- Currently excluding Welsh?
- Airmen – crikey! – in stretchy latex? That’s close to a bloomer
- Only some part of useful vegetarian food
- Show dedication to working a short time to fill box
- Work old revue, giving it a new look
- Part of army, say, one with soldiers? Right about that
- Criticism with heroin being included in comedian’s material
- Knight hurried west, interrupting holiday somewhere in Cornwall?
Down Clues
- Racket encompassing car reversing – not front, exhaust
- University event supporting second girl at St Andrews?
- One investigating observer snatching vintage container
- A doubling of money in price increases? It arouses passion
- Dull sound that has undertones, dwindling at the outset
- Farm worker mostly is concealing sources of dairy feed, boss
- Obsessive about City spot, according to reports
- Look over the deals misrepresented in newspaper
- Item of parliamentary news – extra reading
- Doctor, on Truss needing treatment: ‘Dreadful’
- Network set-up about rugby included in equipment? It’s a New Zealand thing
- Motorists’ group securing reduced payment for show venue
- Opening element of 12, perhaps not opening?
- Cold fury rising in Morecambe?