Cryptic September 25, 2022 Answers

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Cryptic Crossword No. 1,700 by Skinny posted on Sunday, September 25, 2022

Across Clues

• Corrupt villain beginning to ebb into depression
• Set off stuck in reverse, disheartened
• Let in or on
• Verbally compare fungus with algae
• Amply recover after eruption of bile
• Seconds involving extremely rude customs
• Guns, and where one might find them
• Authorise adjustment – it lengthens trousers
• Rainbow iridescence originally seen in various types of mineral
• Rifle fire
• Minor role advanced by job centre
• Still tense about election’s initial turn out
• Graduate managed to drink last drop of rum – he’s often seen in the pub
• Maintaining locks in rich area that’s been redeveloped
• Setter’s note rejected
• Mail a newspaperman returned, at first showing indifference

Down Clues

• Twice one’s substituted for United? That’s realistic
• Get instruction to sheepdog
• Does taking time prevent…
• …a lot of unnecessary drug paraphernalia?
• Imagine fringes of tunic getting altered – it’s inexplicable
• Observe commotion about woman’s poetry, essentially
• Heavy metal – it could be symbolised by the introduction of Whitesnake
• Sort to use 17, amongst others
• Reason to restrict supply of booze
• Key location to get a drink that’s out of this world
• Boat to dock beside Irish islands
• Fat creator of Adrian M
• Spot with attendant exudation
• Price, say, a lunatic raised
• Some use elementary uprising for fights
• Bound to eat last bit of cracker that’s stale