Cryptic crossword No 2,417
Thu 8 May 2025, set byHasslethymi
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Special Instructions: Published in Preston Pages and West of the Clee magazines, plus www.stokestmilborough.info (May 2025)
Across
- Wise men graduate alongside soldier (4)
- Argumentative prisoners flipping the bird (3)
- Setter finds shortened shadows in housing up North (5)
- Hair on moggy, maybe, left rigidly inflexible (8)
- Gold mines outrage Labour leaders and union's top brass (6)
- Philosopher's outspoken hypocrisy (4)
- Quiet long sound (5)
- Eastern European fears lavatory contents (4)
- Write about learner's surprise (4)
- Put up with right instead of left in vote (5)
- Once again, hurricane warning covers it (4)
- That thing with church that causes irritation (4)
- Meaty taste initially unsettles my French friend (5)
- Hands on approach initially taken with vote fraud (4)
- Those disturbed by large budget accommodation (6)
- By March, a woven fabric (8)
- Could be General Schwarzkopf's standards? (5)
- Submachine gun putting out slime by the sound of it (3)
- Listen and amaze yourself a bit on reflection (4)
Down
- Japanese city not applicable to Spanish painter (6)
- Nothing in king's beastly call (4)
- Enclosure ram is kept in (4-2)
- Give no introduction to stock wisecrack (4)
- Bounce back from theocratic revolution lacking even aspects of faith (8)
- Skinny lo-fi fringe members wearing Small and Medium (4)
- Tell goat in disguise: "You can't cross here without paying!" (8)
- Garden bird perched on cold rugby posts is a very little one (5)
- Greek character joining the reservists (5)
- Stay quiet about mother's accident (5)
- Retiring extrovert? (8)
- Sort out the balance in a sequel I edited (8)
- Leaning after it, she fell down the rabbit hole having been made shorter (6)
- Rhododendron and zinnia always look extremely attractive as they open (6)
- Sod it! You taper off at the end! (4)
- Endlessly common filth (4)
- Silly mistake, whichever way you look at it (4)
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