Cryptic crossword No 2,601
Sat 2 Aug 2025, set byduncanjwitham
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Across
- One receiving two articles about X, the second retracted (7)
- Greedy market trader might do this, reportedly? (7)
- Broadcasting ten part series (7)
- Talked and said lie recklessly (7)
- Compliments for Charlie's predecessor (5)
- Couple of pointers for digital manipulator? (9)
- A positive, possibly kind, family comes to the front (5,4)
- Old pub receives award for spirit (5)
- Secrecy is waste, although not entirely (7)
- Come back and relax by pool, taking time out (7)
- Disappointment when man snubbed smile (7)
- That place with a bit of thespianism inside? (7)
- Strange way to begin to play guitar? (5)
- No room in hospital vicar accepted, coming back for OD (9)
- Threw away second ace, perhaps passed on round (9)
- Aid for painting line with simplicity (5)
Down
- I had already, occasionally, wasted time (5)
- Spot child hiding, I deal with the problem (3,2,2)
- Ineffective ethos, lots gone astray (9)
- Sailor and crew undertake to split chest (7)
- Bottom? Papers managed to cover it up (5)
- Change when I departed, transport's delayed (9)
- Chemical alteration to increase, mostly (7)
- Dampen Spooner's tedious anger (7)
- What commentator may do when one sprinter goes after another? (5,4)
- Dug individual dance (7)
- Crossed swords in action - fencing club? (7)
- Chance flu spreads to quite a lot of people (7)
- Grab drink bottles, run... (5,2)
- Player's first appearance is liability, United admitted (5)
- Obsession with comic book, one for girls initially (5)
- Audience of record sneer when it's playing (9)
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