Cryptic crossword No 2,274
Fri 14 Feb 2025, set byGradgrind
Special Instructions: This is a combined effort from a group of setters. You may be able to guess our location when completing the crossword.
Across
- Dressy female's moral confusion (6)
- Improvise tune: go to get mouth organ (6)
- Holiday mishap (4)
- At certain times, cocoa is non-negotiable (2,8)
- Spoil company's scheduled merger (6)
- Two sailors in charge of acid (8)
- When rewritten around start of century credo was something above criticism (6,3)
- Fish acquired from Billingsgate (4)
- Take advantage of returning in black limo (4)
- The French unexpectedly deny overturning British rule to get electrical equipment (6,3)
- Hot pie cooked with cornmeal crusts and pepper (8)
- Why you start to munch again, it's delicious (3-3)
- Wandering ram comes across fair (8,2)
- Flavour of Eton mess (4)
- Analyses, for example, content of Trump's backside (6)
- Local gardens turned over in parish tragedy (6)
Down
- Old country depicted in motif or mosaic (7)
- Sheets of badly written prose (5)
- Takes place of cowherd to start with, leading beasts (6)
- Period before Labour got seat in assembly (9)
- Wearing fancy red gown I miss beginning of waltz (7)
- Jittery opponents met first of several delays (13)
- Chose exercises in wordbook (5)
- Appears not to be oneself (4-5)
- Two old ladies eating pork pie and sage? (7)
- Fail to stop talking (3,2)
- Old boy grooming a mule shortly before sunrise (7)
- Gayest production is a bit OTT (6)
- Leaders of musical organisation take exception to choral piece (5)
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