Cryptic crossword No 2,459
Sat 31 May 2025, set byGuinevere
Special Instructions: Themed solutions are defined, but in some cases are phrases that are specific to the theme and, although they are all common English words, full phrases may not be found in the dictionary.
Across
- Group attempting to keep the peace originally deemed regularly taking nudes ‘inappropriate’ (5)
- Yes, film it - ignore the order, I’ll do what I choose! (3,2,4)
- Relax here and have Strawberry Dreams, perhaps? Luxury! (3,2,5)
- See 1a
- Are one million in temporary accommodation making up for bad behaviour? (9)
- See 20a
- She’s proposed - unrehearsed - and had dinner? (9)
- Go off, second left, then go towards the west (5)
- Traditional family identification when one leaves country (7)
- Wife, amateur book editor, is missing (6)
- Stobart’s one of many reporting spinning in the water (5)
- Finale’s almost complete - just missing introduction (6)
- Bony ombré tabby unusually predestined as setter’s beau (4,2,2,2,4)
- Show again, in sheerer underwear (5)
- Diana boasted to Spooner about band’s Greatest Hits - this could be a turning point? (9)
- After taking a dip, military branch head of service is embraced by Guinevere (2,5,4)
Down
- Asked again for arrangement of ‘Red Red Rose’ without soprano (9)
- Constituents in uniforms seated in British Rail Society’s lounge (7)
- Tiresome princess’s endless cry for attention we’re told leads to increasingly nettled grandparents (8)
- Yes, death’s complicated at the present time (5,4)
- Sound of Einaudi opera (5)
- More timid, tremble, very lost (5)
- C - A + 50E = O (6)
- Rugby gathering takes time to cut out cocaine - strike a chord? (5)
- Splits strands biting tip of hair (8)
- Movement starts off mezzo-forte, orchestra’s thirty instruments overwhelmingly nostalgic (6)
- Country air drifting through dancing tree (7)
- On the town, dressed up, prove you’re better! (8)
- Subject setter’s following taught initially prior to higher education (5)
- Represent journalist after a change of career? (7)
- Indulge idiot with an injection of humour - doughnut! (4,2,2)
- Tucked up inside lopsided lei you gave out (7)
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