Cryptic crossword No 2,531
Sat 5 Jul 2025, set byrowboat
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Across
- Angels push new saint after turning holy (8,4)
- Abandons choice words harboring half-concealed phantoms (7)
- Famous lady loses head, chases small adventure (4)
- Capture molluscs with shell removed (4)
- Public washer with charge coming in for good remains to be seen? (10)
- Definition not accepted: vacuous fool setter bearing terrible headache (10)
- American bastard knocked over small chair (4)
- Cocky vegetarian made a mess of arousing oil (12)
- Fatuous art show installation primarily square (7)
- Street element bypasses car park (7)
- Mexican state feline found in currency (7)
- Computer code that might keep you up at night? (4)
- Stylish presentation for half-baked business follows fringe salesman flipping pizza topless (10)
- Cleaning products scare away men (10)
Down
- Haze yet to be resolved for dice game marketed to children (7)
- Fabric reportedly passed down in the family? (4)
- Unchanged when embracing brief vice (2,2)
- Ages cheese on salami slice (4)
- Bum intermittently teases medium with half-decent perception (10)
- Stop entertaining male date cycling– it’s not healthy! (12)
- Scripture defaced after journalist finally tries drugs (7)
- Leaderless head management wanting vacant idealistic supporters (10)
- Second-rate course about animal-related injury reporting (12)
- Study mysterious ice cold tin with extraterrestrial origin (7)
- Losing state record, student theatre needs time (10)
- Measures of opposition to current decoration covering hospital square (4)
- Waste license misused (7)
- Ecstasy fills Germanic people consuming Vietnamese dish and they play funky music (10)
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