Curious place in confines of school for a surgical knife (7) Cut down small hollow tree (5) 'Companero comun' 1950 classic its author wanted to call 'Mind and Iron' Calcium sulphate (6) Camera setting for dummies Caracas's country Casanova mournfully admits love affair (5) Cat has gold-plated bowl, which is capital (9) Clansman regularly drinks a French wine or port (10) Clapper in some Latin music Clear as ___: 2 wds. Clingy garment stars darn the wrong way (7) Collect what you've merited Come through the door Common crossword clue conclusion Concerned with the main cocaine supply (7) Concert blaster, briefly Confiscates £1,000,000? (8) Console revolutionary for a long time (4) Crisp Mexican pancake (4} Cook in oil Canal of song Commercials Celebrity Communicate with power about a church Changed most of set in Verdi production Co-star playing bearded dictator Crew member: he maps it at sea Cute and rare wild animal Clamber Corrosion Childs temper Concert date (inf) Current endlessly beneath swimmer chewing sloppily Coruscate Chinese dynasty in which gunpowder was invented Comedic bit California-based biotechnology giant City in the Red River delta College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City in upstate New York Color page of an almanac Cookie-flavored cereal Certain NCO Choice words CAF nation; coach Mahamat Allamine (4) Check said rule (5) Classic gift for a teacher Cleverly humorous people (4) Collective term for flower's sepals, modified as cycle! (7) Comedian, - - - Dawson Comedians with intelligence (4) Common buckthom genus - man confused with rush (7) Common fund-drive gift Common name for Hippeastrum cultivar. popular Christmas houseplant (9) Common name for Yucca filamentosa is ___ needle (5) Common name for tropical plants, genus Caladium - useful to a cherub! (5,5) Common name of Diascia plant - was, initially, found in scattered turnips (8) Common name of Rhus coriaria - from alyssum, actually! (5) Common name of Schlumbergera plant - blooming prickly at Yuletide! (9.5) Courage ___ (Wizard's gift to the Cowardly Lion) Cover put back by one man, being industrious (8) Crab apple genus in informal usage (5) ___ confusa, commonly called Christmas box (10) __ choy Can of worms, maybe Clumsy Calf-length skirt Cream relative Chaps Chaucer works Casual gait Claw C.S. Lewis lion Christina _, actress who played Jen Harding in Dead To Me (9) Crime anthology whose stars included Sean Bean, Red _ (6) -- Castle in Kent, England, was the home of several medieval queens of England (5) Capital of Deux-Sevres department, W. France (5) Chekhov's uncle ___ Claude, French film director whose works include 1970's The Butcher (7) Company that created Barbie and Ken Company with an advertisement that describes "that indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim" Compound police overtime payment reported! (6,7) Cricket ground in the borough of Lambeth, London (4) ___ Cabin (syrup brand) Certain Christmas tree Code crackers' org. Childish comeback Cat or dog Cousin of inc. Crock-Pot concoctions "C'est la ___" Cosmic payback Compassion Come after Cougar Complete collection Cats learn to be like earlier family members Chain-mail, perhaps, left right out of affair (5) Champ's rival Checks for typos, for short Cockerel's pride a prime temptation to fight (6) Cosmetic used on ship? (5) Covering layer one's seen on omnivorous mammal (5) Curiosity and Opportunity Curse temper shown up Cut into spice bud (5) ___ Capital (firm cofounded by Mitt Romney) ___ cheese: Southern spread Cheerleading squad shout Cliff is after wcond piece of meat (5) Corrupt son involved in gm curtailed fund (7) ___ Cravalho (she voiced Moana) Calcium's lacking from pet food (6) Capering Check endlessly to rotate sheets in small room (3,4) Company with thallium found in silica grains going to 12Ac 9Dn (8) Challenge for somebody thrown in the deep end, in two senses "Coffee, Tea ___ ___?"; 1973 Karen Valentine movie Causes of harm or misery (6) Crouching quickly Cry of displeasure Chicago Bulls legend with a lifetime endorsement deal with Nike: 2 wds. Current Lakers star who has a lifetime endorsement deal with Nike: 2 wds. 2002 Cam'ron hit with the lyric "and we gon' get it on tonight" Canoe managed excellent return around Australia Caretaker has month to compose trio Chart-topping sophomore album for Olivia Rodrigo (September, 2023) Cher's one-time husband and collaborator Clever story book by journalist Country west of Iraq: Abbr. Color-changing material ___-cotta (pottery medium) Clipping soft, crimson sheep (11) Complains when old ladies eat last tomato (6) Cake of tobacco - sell one in tin (9) Can leading car informally run in organised track events? - w 16dn (6,8) Can leading car informally run in organised track events? - w 21dn (6,8) Chopper brought back explosives and probes (8) City relocated more pilots (10) Cleric mistreated by head of department moved round (7) Come home lighter for the second game (6,5) Comic admits a brief thousand are outside (7) Cost of shipping case on time (7) Could be a rum ghost (6) Curiously adore the mountain nymph (5) Classic game akin to Wordle Coll. cadets’ group Call into question Crazy as ___ Certain something Corner key Command after entering the barracks, perhaps Copying Cholesterol or steroid, e.g. Couple that together “licked the platter clean” Cut-and-dry businesses Crime that makes MADD mad Curbed Cousins’ mothers CD batsman figured record 428-run opening partnership with Jamie How 2009 (6) Celebrated Canterbury All Black fullback 1965-71 (9) Centre who played 103 games for the All Blacks, including the 2011 and 2015 World Cup finals (4) Champion versus international cricket sides gets nothing right (6) Chief of staff to record a new campaign soundbite (6) Country accepting place in transmitter used to communicate with satellite (6) Caught rhinos out from SW England (7) Caroline Aherne's sitcom family part around beginning of year (5) Cash out a hundred after the fire (3) Cause questionable impertinence (5) Characters in board hiring Amita as Milly in This Life (5) Collision ends in agreement (6) Comedian, ___ Pascoe Conference on the mountain (6) Coronation Street role of Shelley King has unusual name, yes? (7) Country in untidy condition (5) ___ carte (1,2) Certain uniform shade Creative juice for one's OOTD Creature comfort advocacy org. Culinary crab variety Crazes Craving Concept “Clair de —” Coffee, slangily Chaplin of “Game of Thrones” Citrus fruit Comfortably free of heat Cultivating sage takes a long time Colonise Cherish Charles —, English Methodist preacher and hymn-writer who died in 1788 Cross with a loop on the top that often appears in Egyptian personal names Caught fire Current measure Corporation's oilman, bad rogue Cut down small hollow tree Cash drawer Cooking appliance Cocktails chap hasn't drunk, which stifles cheers! Contest's decisive point, after which head completely drops in court Crows gathering on the counter would be 10 odd Cruel individual takes look inside Cavalry soldier Crush into powder Capital administrative area? (7,6) Capricious theocrat uses a sort of e-bike to relieve tension? Centre upset some owner-occupiers Character played by Bryan Cranston (6,5) Chatter about scam attempt to be the one-off side (7,4) Chronic respiratory disease that takes its name from the Greek for 'laborious breathing' (6) City school sources entrants who are upwardly mobile Command religious society Continuously moving strip of rubber or metal that's used in factories for moving objects along (8,4) Cryptic crossword setter from Birmingham? (7) ___ Campbell, Scream actress (4) 'Can't trick me!' Candidate H. Ross ___ Ceremony author overheard (4) Charles III's house Cheese husband prised from relative's old handset (10) Choose to study organ: be encouraged (4,5) Chooses for an office City adverts in TIME maybe featuring duck season (8,7) Cloying artist separated from boxer (6) Coat's second layer worn by 'umble character (9) Comments as Seinfeld character recalled debut in sitcom Commotion as friend gets house during bingo on vacation Computer network allowing telephone calls to be made (5) Computer system linking text, graphics, audio and video (10) Conduct review of unrestricted river harbour after docking Conductor's constipation appalling - pot not needed (9) Copper patrolling university interrupts 5am clean (6) Correspond, write a short letter (4,1,4) Country detains university figure (6) Country in west Indian Ocean (10) Crime lab fluids Crisis where District Attorney takes stuff in ... (5) __ Castro Consumer Compass direction Ciggie-lover one cures Catered afresh with new sherry container Characters from Abba riotous in pub Classification Carafe Cause annoyance in stammering fashion at the dance (10)