Solution to Noble Ends
This puzzle contained a series of nested cryptic crossword clues:
(6) - SOUNDS (sod spun - p, anag.) - Crazy sod spun without quiet noises
- CR(AZ)Y - Insane tear around Arizona
- SOD (dos rev.) - Grass hairstyles return
- SPUN (puns) - Twisted riddles back to front
- W+I+T+H(O)UT - Starts when one true hut keeps nothing outside
- QUI(E)T - Soft echo in desert
- NO+I+S+ES - Spain ending no one's rackets
(4) - LIKE (hidden) - Love inside mall Ikea
- LOVE (rev. hidden) - Revolution holds back nothing
- IraN+SIDE - Within edges of Iran border
- M+ALL - Master every shopping center
- IKEA (alike - l, anag.) - Strangely alike without large furniture store
(3) - zANY - Wacky topless one
- WACKY (initials) - Withdrawing adderall can keep your heads crazy
- TOPpLES+S - Overthrows without pressure, state leader beheaded?
- ON+E - Individual on ecstasy
(9) - PR+INC+I+PAL - Public relations initially incorporated current close friend for headmaster
- PUB(L)IC - Genital has head lice population
- RE+L(A+T)IONS - Again, lions ate a true family
- INITIAL+L+Y - Monogram primarily looked yellow at first
- INCORPORATED (anag.) - Included crack pot raced iron
- CURRENT (double def.) - Contemporary flow
- C+LOSE - Hundred fail, almost
- FRIEND (anag.) - Nuts finder buddy
- FOR (hidden) - In favor of internal staff order
- H+E(A+DM)ASTER (MD rev.) - Squeers, e.g., ends with a doctor returning in Easter
(4) - WIND (double def.) - Spool and tire out
- SPOOL (hidden) - Bobbin' in his pools
- AND (DNA rev.) - About genetic code also
- TIRE (anag.) - Strange rite for wheel
- sOUTh - Not in south central
The final clue then gives the answer:
NE (any hom.) - Sounds like any principal wind.
There is a further cryptic clue to this answer in the title, N(obl)E.