Cryptic crossword No 2,598
Thu 31 Jul 2025, set byHeron
Special Instructions: Five themed clues consist of wordplay only. They are linked to a further clue which also consists of wordplay only.
Across
- Talk foolishly about one bad sailor (6)
- American lawyer receiving violent push is tense situation (5)
- Essential food group for youngster reported (7)
- Keeps hold of objects hotel lost (8)
- Desirable monogrammed trousers (5)
- Nothing happening in first scene? Proceed! (8)
- Always remove damaged corset in acrobatic assault course! (2,5)
- Possibly pat goat? (6)
- Far storm represented in music or poetry (3,5)
- Italian food in capital to take back home (8)
- Charms belonging to us seen after combing back hair (8)
- Total sent back, nothing too material (6)
- Concerning noisy Irish writer's parties (8)
- Love and live - right? (6)
Down
- Design military display (6)
- Acquittal of sailor by the briny, say (10)
- Scant resistance in town like Tunbridge Wells, Kent maybe. (6)
- Bankers invested in comedic illustrations (6)
- Starts to jog across Phoenix Park (4)
- Italian then runs over time (6)
- Firstly replace unit (4)
- My soap is used for conferences (8)
- Non-rub material prepared for sensible anaesthetist? (8,6)
- Subdue a terrier energetically digging for this? (6,8)
- Affable land worker eating a bit of lunch (8)
- New development of pub getting a round of applause (10)
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