Cryptic crossword No 2,371
Sat 12 Apr 2025, set byRough
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Across
- Agree not to fence common (5)
- You first spread yellow preparation to use cutter (2-6)
- Midfield athlete finally on pitch second to last and left early for encrusted fish (3,4)
- Bitter; Initially volatile head is settled on an amber liquid (7)
- It might be silly storing gold on board with Silver’s energy (7)
- Signal left, from right of stage into centre (7)
- Irrelevance almost has Italy pressing for help (4-2,5)
- Lets off discharges (7)
- Spray “loser” over a building (7)
- No bones about it, they’re inside! (7)
- If Dante is outmoded then Italo Calvino starts to seem inane (7)
- Hotshot nude cycling in crowd? (8)
- Trap rube and strip artist (1-4)
Down
- Charge £3 to be accepting of finishing off last of fondu while stuffed (4,4)
- Tight corpus of slang in army? (6)
- Born into allegedly disreputable lower rank (10)
- Cry a river for man in jail (4)
- Get into dancing on drugs (6)
- Oily rag squeezed and hung up, it’s not hard (6)
- 14-4 is obvious in comparison… (7)
- …with derived base of log (natural) (5)
- Relish call to choose a flower (10)
- European regards invite as dishonour (7)
- Fixes facing men tipped for awards (8)
- Scoop dung into tin (5)
- Sun often rising before “Morning has Broken” is spun (6)
- Rough aspect of Curtis Strange? (6)
- Stand more weakly at the end of the ride (4,2)
- Yes you got it! (4)
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