Cryptic crossword No 2,605
Sat 2 Aug 2025, set bybuddy
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Special Instructions: This appeared on Big Dave's site as NTSPP 808
Across
- Hereditary bores incite negativity all around (7)
- Envisage scorn when start of tennis is delayed (11)
- US city, fashionable in the past (7)
- Whistle, perhaps in a jolly style? (5)
- People in authority hold back standard treatment (7)
- Number one constituent stifled by bureaucracy (4)
- Mark transfixed by high-pitched quaver (7)
- One week in Kiribati on vacation for New Zealander (4)
- Bad dream, buried in work: you can run fast here, but never get anywhere (9)
- Grant, Oscar and Phil, struggling, welcoming quiet (11)
- Winning cap inspires one hard worker (10)
- This bird appears after terrified mariners initially escape a raging "storm-blast" (9)
- Assistant captures black bear (5)
- Shower on third of February? Good idea (10)
Down
- Dim fool almost amusing (8)
- Resident of college with prize: a set of books (8)
- Itinerant lama in Asian capital (6)
- Costume sewn, as seams bulge regularly (8)
- Try cutting just a bit (4)
- Home and not home, so to speak (2,1,3)
- Bump seconds out of noon duel (4)
- Musical group at the heart of rock festival (5)
- New progress conserving energy for environmentalists (10)
- Partisan thug escaping from trap (9)
- Run small car, limited by shoddy treads (10)
- Muse to summon before I work on beginning of epic (8)
- Irritable, exhausted carer with squirming baby (6)
- Resolute support secured in secret (6)
- Topple leading faction (5)
- Exaggeration here by pol gone off the rails (9)
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