Cryptic crossword No 2,418
Thu 8 May 2025, set byThymePass
Special Instructions: I might have gone a little overboard here with them crypticky abbreviations …
Across
- Publicly ridicule snoop taking 15,050 Won openly (7)
- Nice cheese out of season (7)
- Dude in Mexico, Spain, Sweden, and Ethiopia, but not Thailand (3)
- Ducks circle trains meandering mostly around Toronto? (7)
- Most unsophisticated voles primarily burrow without involving artificial intelligence (7)
- Sexism, ugliness contributed to attack (3)
- Annual return affected principals after retrospective growth falls (7)
- Power moves held back after renegade finally dies (7)
- Some celebrity's pic you found hot and tasty? (5)
- Check princess in German car? Love's gone (5)
- Weasel out of opening for Sia? Exactly! (5)
- Warning! All mimes become extremely reticent leads (5)
- Social worker almost gives birth to an aardvark (7)
- Camp accepted canine after abrupt attack bagged 4 (7)
- Prime Jovian eggs? (3)
- Is malignancy finally gone from gland in neck? (7)
- Charlie, Brahms, and Liszt enrol Pound in university (7)
- French copper very occasionally seeks consanguinity (3)
- Engine housing gondola in dirigibles (7)
- Fox, kestrel, and hare (7)
Down
- For exposed sceptic, knowledge is undue conjecture (15)
- Sex worker takes 50% in advance to moon Romeo (8)
- "Madonna, are orally stunted boys what gets you going?" (3,4)
- "Hello, Sir", said attendant (6)
- Decent chef using polluted wind and water in Beijing (4,4)
- Craft's origin? A minute island (7)
- Inability to read a dictionary renders inmate unhappy at heart (6)
- Spare dog religious instruction! Latin absent in canine: not on course (15)
- Gas giant lying about underpinning credit note swap is an American pastime (8)
- Taking away Italian leader charged in sailor neglect case (8)
- Underwear party cancelled in journey gate-crashed by woman's mother? (7)
- Ecstasy after states apprehend Dutch hostile (7)
- Sketchy tutorial about teleportation is causing beginners to stay put (6)
- A Greek god picked up a computer (6)
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