Cryptic crossword No 2,577
Tue 22 Jul 2025, set byHeron
Special Instructions: Five themed clues consist of word play only. They are linked in the same way to a further solution which also consists of word play only.
Across
- Picadors always clutching on the back (6)
- One fractured dreadfully in race (4,2,6)
- Check squashed quiche, occasionally put back together again (11)
- A van and digger crashed (10)
- Everyone in punt by one college is graceful (8)
- Start to jump in shallow waters in inlets (6)
- Scope in Further Education (6)
- Expanded dictionary absorbs writer (6)
- Great starts to mountaineering adventures in Nepal (4)
- I dug flares frantically for rescuers (10)
- What ho! Massive sandwiches! (6)
- Unproductive tycoon on the radio (6)
- Tried to surpass Australian without flight: delayed and deserted (8)
Down
- See 22a
- Plant functioning - see the light (6,2)
- Potter, maybe, is brilliant (6)
- Post Office at first gets a vehicle (7)
- Some plan rebellious uprising (6)
- Was indifferent: quiet and sturdy (8)
- Setter's friend a high jumper! (6)
- Reliable couple could be going this way (6)
- Massage cramp - no free action (11)
- Number of county division (7)
- Submits to delays (6)
- Old Elgar composed in great quantities (6)
- Impending agreement returned: it’s taken before retirement (8)
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