Cryptic crossword No 2,501
Sat 21 Jun 2025, set byHasslethymi
Special Instructions: Published in 7 Directory, Preston Pages and West of the Clee magazines, plus www.stokestmilborough.info (September 2025)
Across
- Reportedly look blue (3)
- Hail layer covers the sky (6)
- Car manoeuvring around bend (3)
- Self-confidence, for example, begets love (3)
- They finally called out for what reason? (3)
- Fiddle about with machine and you may need him! (8)
- A public servant's current unit (3)
- Work on spasm of the eye (5)
- Decline in gold is so long (5)
- Steam peeled leaves (3)
- Jockey hid bet insiders following victory (3)
- Mauritius is ugly without you, pudding (8)
- It looks both ways (3)
- Look at area under bishop's jurisdiction (3)
- Heartlessly dipping into rubbish jargon (6)
- Romeo gets the old whiskey (3)
- Mountain dweller to find itself captured by nine (4)
- Detected in urine and pulse (3)
- ...and humour him at first (4)
- Cheese for the most part overwhelms one in French state (6)
- Flower bunch has extraneous wrapping (6)
Down
- Get rid of chopper (3)
- Complain about Pinocchio, perhaps (4)
- Kidnap doctor again? Shh! (8)
- Allocate under the name of Leo, possibly (6)
- Former colony to reform a layabout partially (6)
- Exercise magistrates and the media (10)
- Feeling the tip came out of the blue (10)
- Revolutionary saint's casket (5)
- Ten made to run around without interest, forgetting disorder (8)
- Feel sorry for roasting first bird (6)
- Feel aggrieved about chasing Papa here (7)
- Are components forming musical discrimination? (3)
- The Spanish dropped from team stable (4)
- Column about human resources or shot putter, perhaps? (7)
- Approach great leader standing for upper-class payback (6)
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