Cryptic crossword No 2,336
Fri 21 Mar 2025, set byPlatypus
Special Instructions: This puzzle, for a Crossword Masterclass by Cracking the Cryptic, has been set by 19 setters in attendance at 'Word ↔ Puzzles’, a conference held at Magdalen College, Oxford, on March 21, 2025.
Across
- Simon orders Mark to break down misdirection (5,3,7)
- Having come into two lots of nothing, Lear's daughter leaves (7)
- Stumble across article written by Foucault about history (7)
- Silly fool messed around with virus (9)
- Time to cuddle wife and kids (5)
- Gap locations finally stocking large leisure suits (7)
- Susie Dent gutted about reviews (7)
- 'Magic Mark!' — Simon, with one left, welcomes tip from Goodliffe (5)
- Fantastic amount of work withdrawing and suppressing nasty quotes (9)
- Gags and gasps (7)
- School pupils regularly upset about English course requiring effort? (7)
- Oxford attraction for literary types that's fully booked? (9,6)
Down
- Upset fool sometimes swallows port (4)
- Josh Widdicombe's closing after Brand and Kay (4)
- A kiss rejected by hot old flame? Figures! (8)
- All told where the witch wanted to get her claws (2,4)
- Spurs needing one million pounds (8)
- Spinning Rhythm & Blues on ones and twos (6)
- One's skewered by satirist penning "Oxford University versus student" (8)
- They are revealing origin of Glastonbury's stone circles (1-7)
- Bucolic river — one in Russia (5)
- Idiot set up weapon as way of controlling entry (8)
- Oxford scholars coming out of their shells at breakfast? (8)
- Mark (really fine fellow) gives up? (5,3)
- Unionist about to take brief control of peer's channel (8)
- Pique as anagram indicated by 'supply' (5)
- A zoologist at first splits flower with sloth (6)
- Delicacy required in secrets you've brought up (6)
- These characters in a file act to define what they are (4)
- Conference perhaps needing two people in Auditorium (4)
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