Cryptic crossword No 2,550
Sat 12 Jul 2025, set byAlgy
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Across
- Pierce Brosnan nasty grans (6)
- Lovable socialist not on reshuffled leaderboard (8)
- Race with keel on the rocks surounding metal pot (6)
- 4 may supply your time back (3)
- Highly significant Peking mocha brewed! (5-6)
- Larking Lawrence replayed again and again (10)
- Feline sound brought back misery to spymaster (4)
- Canine deputy falling short and led astray to take his time. (6)
- Dry clue resolved. Artlessly! (7)
- Re-establish British University - the Italian communist protecting. (7)
- Scholar Romeo has hot poems (6)
- Grabs nabobs who don't smell (4)
- Shy, fair elk gambolled capriciously (10)
- Two supernatural creatures feeding bad doses to themselves. (4-7)
- Book dividing publishers (3)
- Sixth sense in pursuit of note and soprano, therefore strong drink (8)
Down
- Dash note in letter (4)
- Backward silly senator has no love (6)
- Officer walks away from optimally organised ideal home location? (7)
- City where one can be ice cold? (10)
- Bob escapes merriest mobile galley (7)
- Side entrance for sharp talkers? (8)
- Saurians clash crazily where there's a wondrous tomb (13)
- New auditor misconstrued camera device (10)
- Flying northern dragons could have two 28 (8)
- Old city scholar by Mr Chaney (7)
- Collapsed penthouses? No, not in old city. (7)
- Decoy and Zulu mangled music from Louisiana (6)
- Yosser's demand shortly heard in Egypt (4)
- Pie-eyed papoose-holder n the scrum (5,4,4)
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