Daily Maverick

Devlin’s Diabolic Cryptic Crossword

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Across

1 Hotel with employee (4)

3 European flower: hitman loses it! (8)

9 Movie from the 80s that is about thugs? The opposite! (7)

10 The lady of the house going back and forth (5)

11 Battery-operated cars generate sparks (8,4)

13 Old dye set emptied – most peculiar (6)

15 Sailor healthier after whiskey (6)

17 Beverage giving nasty toothache, not entirely cold (3,9)

20 Skin perhaps turning orange, lacking vitamin? (5)

21 Gangster with a gun making you scared (7)

22 Creative is seen in loft drawing in colour, at last (8)

23 Stick around in support (4)

Down

1 Tune Hugo's playing in tunnel (8)

2 Who's in empty room 12E? (2,3)

4 Pandemic? It surely holds country back (6)

5 Storage on phone has old scriptures for Jewish festival (7,5)

6 Lid came off, concerning doctors? (7)

7 Lack ability to feel after third of digit chopped off (4)

8 Minute amount of LX and S? (5,7)

12 Day Lendl went topless at end of rally in exhibition match? (8)

14 Doctor is required in harmful weather (7)

16 Thus African country must be African! (6)

18 Grant and Tim raised by a divorcee initially (5)

19 Furniture with no base, until now (4)

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