Cryptic crossword No 2,572
Sat 19 Jul 2025, set byPrak
Special Instructions: The title of this crossword is "Escape"
Across
- Soldier shows needlework (7)
- Lawsuit about selenium (4)
- See 7d
- Drink Scotch with energy infused by this spell? (5,7)
- Occasionally Caligula's priest's haranguing a Roman province (9)
- Beat poet heads for English department (7)
- Local tenor adjusted part of costume (4,6)
- Henry longed to get married (7)
- Fellow with vessel outside youth hostel gets cover from the west (6,3)
- Hubble telescope discovered new mini moon finally (5)
- Rhotacizes an ill-scanned quatrain (6,6)
- Aeronautic event in Florida followed by Scottish one (3-2)
- Escaped with three bits of Quetzalcoatl's tail and assorted gear (2,5)
- Declared innocent old partner ran exhibition, inserting album for king (10)
Down
- Clarinetist's ear was hit badly (5,4)
- Member of order put excessive amount in lease (6)
- Revs engine in Vatican City spaces (6)
- Bull possibly sitting in an inferior position (5)
- Laughing Buddha's very attractive and oddly evil (5)
- Study Australia rejected is split into sections (5)
- Jackson's work remaining unhung? (3,3,4)
- Maybe museum left person with destructive urges (6)
- 30s comedian Will's nails, in piles on the farm (9)
- Flipped some vinyl mod narrated in a haphazard way (8)
- Lays around in lido, flesh exposed (5)
- A spy shocked with shine of Roller, according to story (9)
- Start hurriedly encircling Malory's king (6)
- Friend accepts thanks about chop with no reservation (3,3,3)
- Martial artist attends church providing opportunity (6)
- Toad frolicking in stream where dinghies might be stored (4,4)
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