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Monday Cryptic 4

· By Lego · Published 2023-12-14T16:21:04.628Z

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  • Lego constructor · 2023-12-14T16:21:54.317Z
    I hope you enjoyed this one! Thanks for the feedback.
    1A
    No time, Mr Skinflint. (5)
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    Across
    1. 1A
      No time, Mr Skinflint. (5)
    2. 6A
      Troups' first sprocket returned. (5)
    3. 9A
      Set in pearl I erased before. (7)
    4. 10A
      Mama takes first good ejecta. (5)
    5. 11A
      Sydney University left to unswaddle muddle. (5)
    6. 12A
      Thanks to Barbie's man, it's in use. (5)
    7. 13A
      First corn is mixed with starch where you start from. (7)
    8. 17A
      Juggling the weight of French gadgetry. (5)
    9. 19A
      Most beautiful woman carried back by an elephant with no pants. (7)
    10. 22A
      Jazzy bongo flute's last duets – the start of something big?
    11. 23A
      A clove scrunched into a nook. (5)
    12. 25A
      Perhaps Bond Street leaves stage, not without love. (5)
    13. 26A
      Owing money, he left thine bed in disarray. (2, 4)
    14. 28A
      Endless disorderly queuing? That's novel. (6)
    15. 29A
      Escape her M.C. (6)
    16. 32A
      Strange I drew strangely. (5)
    17. 34A
      Egoistic, heartless, he'll abandon shellfish. (7)
    18. 38A
      Pyramid builder cited in The Abbreviated A to Z of Technical Edifice Construction. (5)
    19. 39A
      Expire in gold – bye bye. (5)
    20. 40A
      A price you pay for a coral necklace? (5)
    21. 41A
      Bachelor degrees soon an instrument of considerable solemnity. (7)
    22. 42A
      Chum usually provides sustenance. (5)
    23. 43A
      Easily, oily, voicelessly, cunningly. (5)
    Down
    1. 1D
      Swollen glands thanks to mother – just an afterthought. (5)
    2. 2D
      Odd, scungy air sweetens the pill. (5)
    3. 3D
      In here actors respond. (5)
    4. 4D
      Regarding entering with wiggle. (6)
    5. 5D
      Vacillating pickle’s soft spot gets strong. (6)
    6. 6D
      Crazy carnival loses five of the heads. (7)
    7. 7D
      Western show or back with deodorant. (5)
    8. 8D
      Distorts it as Kew should contain it. (5)
    9. 14D
      Yen enters stick to spice things up. (7)
    10. 15D
      Love the sound of a door. (5)
    11. 16D
      Swindles Guevara at first sight. (6)
    12. 18D
      Consumes ours after stunted development. (7)
    13. 20D
      Eel returns to Switzerland’s blood-sucker. (5)
    14. 21D
      Essence enters in at urethra. (6)
    15. 24D
      I infiltrate chef’s boss. (5)
    16. 27D
      Smudges around a bus-bed. (7)
    17. 30D
      Twee, or lacking courtesy. (6)
    18. 31D
      Third-party account to briefly escape argument. (6)
    19. 32D
      Chaos of the first and second war’s fury. (5)
    20. 33D
      Even "siddhi dogma" is an odd expression. (5)
    21. 35D
      Tends towards changing lanes. (5)
    22. 36D
      White matter of or in ivy. (5)
    23. 37D
      Spurt out of upholstery like Swiss cheese. (5)
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