Toughie No. 52 — cryptic crossword
A toughie puzzle: 40 clues on a 15×15 grid. Solve it online — check your answers as you go, ask for a hint, and read how each clue works once it is solved.
Across
- Stamps out dodgy sales (5)
- What finishes the camel: hold out with hat material (4,5)
- Shout of joy from the big game fish (5)
- Reeling wildly, giving the eye (7)
- Space almost full: quite a crowd (7)
- Engineers tucked into cabbage for a mixed tongue (6)
- Irritations of corrupted ethics (6)
- Chart a posh scene (7)
- House gospel — an unpalatable fact (4,5)
- Workers taking in a note for the stakes (5)
- Finnish retreat where everyone gets steamed up (5)
- Fashionable Sid has debts — how treacherous! (9)
- Notwithstanding, speed it about (7)
- Resorts to manuscript in fits (6)
- Playful child in a one-piece garment (6)
- Coins wrapped around us? Relations! (7)
- Our gate smashed! (7)
- A tear-jerker: working with a charged atom (5)
- Fired up again about the sort who went first (9)
- Birds circling the west are fools (5)
Down
- Grasping the ego, roughly (7)
- Reverence for the rower's blade, we hear (3)
- Tree spotted in usual archives (5)
- Heirs upset the county (5)
- Trademark? The ship's record shows nothing (4)
- Spells when the crests were shattered (9)
- Piste gear: powder over the directors (9)
- Musings of a silent force in disarray (11)
- Nuts! Most of the wall's crackers (7)
- Figures the nose is broken (4)
- Fail to arrive — one is jammed (4,7)
- Old jazz with sex appeal and a charged particle — the custom (9)
- General ruins vale, sadly (9)
- I, scared, wobble along in this! (7)
- Resist change in society? Nuns! (7)
- Whirled about, cracking puns (4)
- Some appetite — small, in France (5)
- Shaft: narrow, having lost its head (5)
- Temper starts to make one over-dramatic (4)
- Cuckoo brought back from China (3)
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