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Cryptic: Becoming Desperate [difficult]

◆◆ · By wisprabbit · Published 2022-10-26T11:55:43.840Z

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A themeless cryptic crossword. This came out quite difficult, and it's also quite British.
I post crosswords and logic puzzles on my Twitter: https://twitter.com/wisprabbit
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  • quatrevingtneuf 38:54 · 2022-10-27T16:33:53.238Z
    difficult indeed... needed to look up a couple things and didn't quite get every parse but it was a pleasant ride
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    1A
    Flier lists two fights (7)
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    Across
    1. 1A
      Flier lists two fights (7)
    2. 5A
      Korean dish imbued with common Korean energy (6)
    3. 9A
      Riot gets you to fall back (3)
    4. 10A
      Cut around left over right, to survive that which transforms sunlight into food (11)
    5. 11A
      Report from a farm: onion not even kissed at first (4)
    6. 12A
      Fisher gets 4 points, seen on the television daily (10)
    7. 14A
      Film shown in lots of space between Corries (5)
    8. 15A
      “Like a past century,” he asked, leaving island (9)
    9. 17A
      Rat or cat, perhaps, keeps a quiet Urdu duffed up inside: thus, it is proven (9)
    10. 18A
      Drinks recipe taken from swamps (5)
    11. 20A
      Unease with 1-0 mess, as a Greek mystery (10)
    12. 22A
      Tense duck working with Mickey Mouse? (4)
    13. 24A
      Kicking people out of the country is an old custom (11)
    14. 25A
      Finish off big man in Venice with plague (3)
    15. 26A
      Salted brittle in mouths (6)
    16. 27A
      One girl in play! (7)
    Down
    1. 1D
      Italian lady trapped by design or accident (7)
    2. 2D
      (with 7D) Seen the back of stranger… oh dear me, now, latterly, becoming desperate! (7, 5, 3, 5, 4, 6)
    3. 3D
      Source of carbs: chip; tucking into fries, even (4)
    4. 4D
      Pillowcase bundles up pieces of caulker’s trophy (6, 3)
    5. 5D
      Super Mario’s vehicles are primarily Kinect and real-time strategy (5)
    6. 6D
      Two charts (one backwards) and United Nations note have one view of the world (5, 5)
    7. 7D
      See 2D
    8. 8D
      Gazed, taken aback – uprising egg running away (6)
    9. 13D
      Drug of French newspapers, to a soldier (10)
    10. 16D
      Beguiling organ used in coda (9)
    11. 17D
      Spanish who install English in British Columbia, or the other side of the country from British Columbia (6)
    12. 19D
      Retiring ala Gene Siskel, protecting country (7)
    13. 21D
      Perfectly executes creature, making its head drop to the floor (5)
    14. 23D
      Shortly being unknown (4)
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