Cryptic: Four Spanners
◆◆ · By wisprabbit · Published 2022-09-28T11:55:07.450Z
Constructor's Note
A themeless cryptic crossword.
I set myself a challenge to clue four 15-letter fills in the same cryptic. I think it went fine, but I like the little clues here, especially 7D.
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Seafood caught by sailor, all by himself (7)
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Across
- 7APoet ordained into Judaism won’t stop orating (7)
- 8AAtlas Shrugged start goes about a bug in a big city (7)
- 10AAnglo-Saxon monster replaces Republican with aged, topless, savage fruit (6, 9)
- 11AAfter onrush, brain-damaged – starts to incur lumps in seizures – what a dreadful year! (5, 10)
- 13AMaybe arm setter’s pound fencing (4)
- 15AA paranormal phenomenon twisted part of a church (4)
- 20AIntel-gathering team’s budget produces further though (15)
- 22A‘Tecs and onwardly-crooked cops (3, 8, 4)
- 24ACaught dangerously syrupy drink with some edges to rinse (7)
- 25ACrosses enemy with custom-built shotgun (7)
Down
- 1DSeafood caught by sailor, all by himself (7)
- 2DHumans perhaps installing cots around property (6)
- 3DEmployed American journalist (4)
- 4DBespoke twaddle, full of holes, going around Illinois (or Massachusetts) (6-4)
- 5DSit brat up to feed pills (8)
- 6DTitle of sanction, when article is replaced with refusal (7)
- 7DPickles baby in Peru – gratuitous! (6)
- 9DEvaluate donkeys with two tails (6)
- 12DPrisons, double lies attest, have lost their walls (10)
- 14DPope out of all pennies? (8)
- 16DPolitics working? At current, Charlie, it’s unexpected (6)
- 17DAmerican vehicle in stock? – the opposite looked unpleasant (7)
- 18DAmazon native ran in constant heat, oddly (7)
- 19DElectrodes pulsed on alkaline elements, mounted (6)
- 21DDisorder’s elevated tracks (6)
- 23DLovely trip forgetting Juliet, a relative (4)