Cryptic July 17, 2023 Answers
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Cryptic Crossword No. 11,470 by Tees posted on Monday, July 17, 2023
Across Clues
- Spooner’s gardening blade nicked body
- 100 — too old for insurance policy?
- Some gent when sloshed gets shiner
- Instrument of Green Power absolute
- Wholesale slaughter Republicans recalled with memory
- Sword-bearer’s second relative crossing road
- Lorry carries Conservative enchantress, keeping Liberal in line
- Rough hooch in yard draws Penny in, causing neurosis
- Easily handled in vast, endlessly vague domain
- Tees full of booze after sending back a puzzle
- Nasty gash in skin of aunt, stupefied with horror
- Cold, is Tees only in loose underbodice?
- Betrothed person’s lovemaking halted around noon
- Scottish island, reportedly unknown, displays allure
Down Clues
- Actor Merle serious about refusing lead
- Short note on a right-winger’s scientific base
- Rolling grass shows way to be followed
- Zulu occupies home rebuilt in Cape — one where Tees lives
- Big shot touching up back-stabber
- Boring routine — pity that’s not finished!
- Pest visibly envious and cunning
- Charlie in Hearts goal upended prophet
- Drink in Med? It’s a cider brewed in sober group!
- Swear duck’s missing from dish
- Bananas go dry inside chicken, creating gas
- Subtle twist in Duncan Edwards’s initiation?
- Engaged in protecting cross, talisman against evil
- Breastfeeds regularly — that’s admired
- Cut in contributions to the Treasury uncovered
- Fairy queen married sailor