Original cryptic crosswords by Algy

Block crossword BL_0002


BL_0002 puzzle

My second complete puzzle, from 2003.

ACROSS

  1. Venerate thousand leaving misguided meekest (6)
  2. Establish race in mysterious East (6)
  3. Usher in quiet, lunatic edict (7)
  4. Middle of seventh incident (5)
  5. Soldiers have second rage at the French? Redistribute! (9)
  6. Poem grabbed by modem (3)
  7. Letters scribed by hand? No! (11)
  8. Wander in terror (3)
  9. Passing into law meant ten hundred changes (9)
  10. Spacewalk departs with oriental sidestep (5)
  11. Institute in which, for example, the Spanish all come back after pass (7)
  12. Floundering NY Times loses point for hatred (6)
  13. Greek adult facing Thailand and Iceland for nothing (6)

DOWN

  1. Knowledgeable expect queen for Cuba (6)
  2. Hair is rotten russet – not acceptable (5)
  3. River with precious discharge (7)
  4. A motif in helpmate maybe? Not a record! (5)
  5. Horror episode ends with affirmation and gold within (7)
  6. Collector of confetti thereabouts (6)
  7. Entertainment by each class with collapsing cane (11)
  8. A tapered beam broke my radar (4-3)
  9. Nominal heart of brutality busted (7)
  10. Put eastern vitamins in rye to make cheap whisky (6)
  11. Tension from second braid (6)
  12. Preferred coming around during perfect celebration (5)
  13. Kick out English knave in front of eastern court (5)

BL_0002 solution