Cryptic crossword No 2,404
Tue 29 Apr 2025, set byCormac
Special Instructions: Topical, so I've got it out a little more quickly than I'd like. Some clues aren't fully Ximenean, I admit. With thanks to Carolyn Power for some invaluable help!
Across
- Good news! (5,5)
- No time, friend, in name (9)
- Very briefly at a standstill (6)
- 9’s nasty debt - nice! (8)
- Appalling sin holes are 9’s address (8)
- Large number 9 says a lot (4)
- 9 peck, say (7)
- Double bacon 9 (7)
- Some 28 Sounds like a 9 (4)
- Monitors (say) tense in strange replies (8)
- Almost beat 31 9s, together and apart (4,4)
- I rumba, dancing in Italy (6)
- 9 either way round! (9)
- See 6d
Down
- Scrap on Panel for Building Material (9)
- Guiding a way for phone company to call (8)
- My oh my! Bears can occasionally miss African city (7)
- Simmer on funny koala bear, say (8)
- They’re black and white, in 'a short drop and a sudden stop' (6)
- No news yet (5,5)
- Figure in white training outside work (4)
- Fruit contains ‘Astley’ rhymes (9)
- Reigns heartlessly outside, king picks up again (8)
- Steal around mobile – almost mobile – explosive (4,4)
- Questioned way of serving fish (7)
- Add-on sounds like a cross (6)
- 9 sounds as you’d expect (4)
- 9 should be 2.5cc, so it’s said (5)
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