Clues
Across
- 1 Spirit capturing East Asian city (5)
- 7 Swamp-dweller’s cry: ‘I must get away!’ (5)
- 8 Reportedly pour in white wine for some singular purpose (2, 3)
Down
- 2 Male choir’s inspiring imitation (4)
- 3 Did her talk show prompt Marxist uprising? (5)
- 4 Contents of basin: puréed kale (4)
- 5 Land mass like Iowa (4)
- 6 Aztec root taken regularly by complete no-hoper (4)
Setter’s notes
Thanks for taking a punt on this one.
Across
- 1 “Spirit” = SOUL, capturing “East” = E — SEOUL.
- 7 “Cry” = SHRIEK, with “I” getting away — SHREK, the swamp-dweller.
- 8 Sounds like (“reportedly”) “pour in white wine” = ADD HOCK — AD HOC.
Down
- 2 Hidden in “malE CHOir” — ECHO.
- 3 “Marxist” = HARPO, reversed (“uprising”) — OPRAH.
- 4 An anagram (“puréed”) of KALE — LAKE, contents of a basin.
- 5 “Like” = AS + “Iowa” = IA — ASIA.
- 6 The even letters (“taken regularly”) of “aZtEc RoOt” — ZERO.