Cryptic crossword No 2,258
Thu 6 Feb 2025, set bymaymes
Special Instructions: With thanks to @Foylesider (The Cryptic Mystic on YouTube) for his thoughts
Across
- Degree obtained from some text entry! (6)
- Changed ethos during introspective talk. Embraced different beginnings (6)
- Not yet fully mature, but see they've grown extra long, prehensile tails (7)
- Used in some ceremonies to enrage (7)
- Aviators in acrobatic display making modifications (10)
- Rush pig out back (4)
- Benevolent annual traveller's satnav broke after losing back of casing (5)
- Unexpectedly adjourned as ex facie positions exchanged in closed trial venue (3,5)
- I'm leaving calcium content of slush to get mineral build up (8)
- Pigment showing in loch reflection (5)
- Capital city's messy loos (4)
- Annoyed by clumsily shed coffee (7,3)
- Problem! I left Jane Austen novel behind back of cupboard (7)
- Rivals get the point of this attachment (7)
- Tasteless skit performed in front of church (6)
- Opinion held by blithe sisterhood (6)
Down
- Mean energy organisation becomes liquid from the bottom up? (5)
- X-ray's beam cut. Second charged atom exhibits stress (7)
- Knocking back gin shots regularly precedes collapse at the end of the day (9)
- Rings get minor dents and marks (5)
- The last of a dozen thuggish outsiders follow goblin after loveless couple (7)
- Police officers' route to dialogue (9)
- Tory swore having suffered a head injury (9)
- Maybe a pie in the face hits right mark (9)
- Taoist interupted every leader (9)
- So, so near but Charlie doesn't win first tournament (7)
- Buried, chewed-up, headless mouse is gruesome (7)
- Dotcom icon, to some extent, tells jokes (5)
- Jumble sale with female jumpers? (5)
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