Cryptic crossword No 2,256
Tue 4 Feb 2025, set byPippi
Special Instructions: A few last words…
Across
- Lion scratching bottom damaged top coat (3)
- Sober group reciting spell wrong turning into steel (10)
- Iron out budget, cross out anomaly (5)
- "Essentially Betty you’re very dry" Elizabeth said before back stabbing (2,2,5)
- Oily substance in rod lacking a little maturity for early bloomer (7)
- Sounds like prize post is getting tougher (7)
- No good sadist is camouflaged plant (15)
- Global organisation unveils big metal cyborg ending meeting (7)
- Asia lost eye by lure mishap for the most part (2,1,4)
- Greek sailors in Garos surprisingly take in nothing by mouth (9)
- Contraption concealed in customs ignored going back (5)
- Spruces it up and gets ready for return (10)
- Big Ouch! Broke one out of ten! (3)
Down
- Communists infiltrated a wed group in error for white substance (8,5)
- Planets spin, bees glow, we lost. (6)
- Falling fowl? (4,1,5,4)
- Changed answer best left unchanged. (6)
- Undo nine swinging? I’ll bet you do! (8)
- North African quadruped takes 26th class (7)
- Right, I heard ‘Sofia’ excerpt makes big steps (5,2,7)
- Two words announced at wedding prematurely, bride banks zero points with daughter on either side. (6,7)
- It’s goose again… oh well (2,2,4)
- Spain follows half hearted dance with no good moves. (7)
- Particle man from Jupiter’s moon (6)
- Reverses highs with aliens (6)
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