Cryptic crossword No 2,581
Fri 25 Jul 2025, set byHawkins
Special Instructions: Written to mark a very special occasion
Across
- Openings for doctors undertaking vocational experiences to search for covers (6)
- Amateur male detective changes limits of warranty (6)
- No strips on her window opening outward? (8)
- Characters of coupledom in one spotted piece (6)
- Tone of Debbie Harry's anniversary gift? (8)
- Rig mechanic (8)
- Apprehension about mass support for member? (7)
- Piece in exam describing planetary movement (7)
- Transfer pictures, roughly scaled (6)
- Articles in French and German on main submarine (8)
- Bleating loony gets physical (8)
- Relaxing time away from needling (6)
- Peer into unknown with variable frequency, maybe (6)
- Fancying criminal maid with jewellery from wedding (8)
Down
- Wedding director chased by American bishop - a surprise attacker! (8)
- Aligning defective National Grid without aluminium (10)
- Vital measure of some students boxing - a topless martial art? (7)
- Tyneside pay provides a fresh start (3,3)
- Most tasty recipe devoured by the lowest of the low (10)
- In a daze, Trump ate singularly timeless Japanese dish (7)
- Tie the knot with locks for Spooner's veil? (8)
- Former pupils in maul going crazy (6)
- New Guinea's transformed and optimistic (8)
- Players in cast regularly ignored words of song (6)
- Host found in Monty's sleevie? (4)
- Wedding promise, preceding large kiss, heard occasionally by worshipper (8)
- Heartlessly overturned Medicaid provides head of state's 1 (6)
- Middle Eastern leader cycled through bog (4)
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