Cryptic crossword No 2,851
Fri 14 Nov 2025, set byMethuselah
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Special Instructions: Originally appeared in the Independent 07/10/23. Republished with kind permission.
Across
- Blokes with love for power causing havoc (5)
- DCIs troop about, keeping eyes peeled for correctional officers (4,7)
- Has Portillo oddly dropped May's predecessor? (5)
- Look after recording of game played by Venus and Serena Williams? (9)
- Irish county's accomplished - another's losing its way (7)
- Nose put out of joint by shameless suggestions (9)
- Drinking buddy knocked back beer shortly before golf (7)
- Don't forget: I like skinny-dippers to swallow chlorine (7)
- Very bad egg seizes on signs of debt (9)
- Private property where hound doesn't need lead (5)
- Striker sent off after starting on a sub (7)
- Some lingo in need of circulation (9)
- See 2 Down
Down
- Charlie more or less gets through drunken toast without slurring (8)
- Sisters gathering round letter in Sense and Sensibility? (5)
- Multilingual talking parrot ultimately sitting on fortune (8)
- Writer's skewering trendy piece of music straight away (2,2,4)
- In the end, students carry stories about half-cut academic across whole institution (8)
- Damsel's rescue secured by knights, perhaps (6)
- Buttons turned up volume right before end of pantomime (6)
- Some of us live dangerously around sources of temptation (6)
- Parasitic imp struggling with vicar (8)
- In role of monarch, heir ignores son's latest quote (6,5)
- Little creature's become large one, according to Spooner (8)
- Conservative senior's not so hot (6)
- Solver repeatedly excoriated Methuselah cryptic (6)
- One quarter of peace-mongering outfit (5)
- A cool comeback finally written into Bond film (6)
- Delighted empty nesters romped atop pantry table, initially (6)
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