Cryptic crossword No 2,413
Tue 6 May 2025, set byAglet
Special Instructions: Enumeration for 2 down should be (5,4)
Across
- Charlie invested in show after accountant suggested a profitable venture (4,3)
- Genuine confusion for CERN base following setback is enthralling (7)
- Team gets quads massaged (5)
- Highest position in France offers a fancy pen? (4,5)
- Tree has nuts (3)
- The French Queen follows rugby… and she’s in charge! (5)
- Quiet Eastern record is something you can count on to help you fall asleep (5)
- Doctors welcoming return to Italian river to see falls (5)
- Switzerland taken in by a little German and his dog (9)
- As an afterthought, head of family from Europe (unknown male) made up name (9)
- Ugandan dictator goes by the book - what a fool! (5)
- Band of brothers find a place for relief (5)
- Head chef holds onto independence (5)
- Characters from the railway age (3)
- Tackle or prepare for a situation we hear is supposed to happen (9)
- Ben is confused for playwright (5)
- Cry over nothing, then capture a weapon (7)
- Breathed a sigh of relief, say, when former lover loudly called a cab (7)
Down
- Dessert is almost late, after starters caused unexpected setback (7)
- Broken spout hole? It's the end of the world! (9)
- Police department has little hesitation serving alcohol (5)
- Somewhere in SW London, bishop replaces priest after nun's head-piece put on (9)
- Bleeps on a radio providing detection technique (5)
- Catch a thief inside Havana bank (3)
- Time to head South East and disappear (5)
- Leaked copy held by key Democrat (7)
- Katsu shiitaki wraps might be on the menu in Japan (5)
- Don't start stage whispers... we're on the edge! (5)
- Company has two thousand and one dry, essentially greedy decision makers (9)
- It's all over when further education institution backs second clergyman over a student (9)
- All over for bachelor after publicist gives trite, well-meaning statement (7)
- Instructed Theodore to entertain artist at home (7)
- Observe a musical composition (5)
- Treasury established by Church (5)
- Trust artificial intelligence adopted by newspaper? Heading for harm! (5)
- Writer in Nebraska, then Portugal, on retreat (3)
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