Cryptic crossword No 2,515
Sat 28 Jun 2025, set bySkirwingle
Special Instructions: A reply to Coot. Thanks to Henri for test-solve & suggestions.
Across
- We’d cut herb with part of serrated blade (3,4)
- Newly energised, her grace disturbed duke (9)
- Puts iodine in food at 15 – or asserts right to (4,5)
- Doubt voiced after you texted ‘Iran developed component for nukes’ (7)
- Cut down number in casualty department (3)
- Live comfortably behind back of new-build (5)
- Greasy spoon 😕 (4)
- Young man happy to have a bit trimmed off the top (3)
- Superhero who’s press staff (4,3)
- See duff building – shed? (7)
- Thanks – typists may get this for bones (5)
- I’m in engineering to cover up black clouds (5)
- Secret navy’s captured volatile Sicilian (4)
- Maybe test match on a lantern – I could be struggling with it (13)
- Man is opposed to replacing name ... this one? (5)
Down
- See 1
- Endangered delicacies? Big men keep calm with upset stomach (5,5)
- See 22
- Don’t catch a hand-warmer (4)
- I’m reversing into broken mirrors on car (6,5)
- Introduction to graph with forest plot (6)
- Projecting part of dessert, say, as it rises (6)
- When at lowest ebb, need daughter to go, carrying suitable documents (4,4)
- Best vegetable I put in sort of freezer (9)
- Sickness of my having adopted Article 28 (6)
- Kidnapping succeeded, of course (6)
- Magnum, perhaps, exercises part of organ (4)
- Endless pain supporting black & white thing for trendies to jump on (9)
- Owl’s mate turned up on ship; yacht crashed, husband lost (8)
- Live with a half-cut Hoover Dam builder (6)
- Waving safety wand means nothing (5,5,5)
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