Cryptic crossword No 2,444
Tue 20 May 2025, set byCarter
5
Across
- Spur naked team leader alongside to impose (3,4)
- Ruud confused by Asian Language (4)
- Clergymen pieces that can't change colours (7)
- Egghead disease year is adhesive (5)
- Scotch Valley lodge complaint ultimately (9)
- Empty Haiku contains machine gun with optics supposedly, I predict guts! (8)
- Leaves in Sherpa Gestures (5)
- Unborn chicks, for example, hollow out grass (4)
- Asian bread is a member (4)
- Botched trifle without learner, just repair it! (5)
- Safety first with tempura batter, but it goes against the current (8)
- Alcohol in Ethan Oliver (7)
- Aloof codebreaker jerks suddenly (9)
- Pardon? A blacksmith's workstation contains four (7)
- To tango with South African Romeo is royal indeed. (4)
Down
- Bridge opponent has book to study (4)
- Disregarded fast guitar play holding furry boot (8)
- Tip top Tungsten disco biscuit has fifty five English to number (6)
- City has Sumerian polity in background (4)
- French sweetheart embraces repulsed Russian on desk (6)
- Rage at incomplete French city (5)
- Perfect time to address poker bet turning nasty (6)
- Crumble battered escallop (8)
- Seedsman planted under dirt initially for tuber (4)
- Extinguish missing cardinal with cloth to close extreme right to vote (8)
- Firstly, vulpine fox denied opening halved population, one it's what the people want! (3,6)
- Saint confused Satan (5)
- Half of stringed toy attracts Arab at American park (8)
- Routine workers hide in ascending hideout (6)
- Familiar reptile has footwear (4)
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