Cryptic crossword No 2,622
Sat 9 Aug 2025, set byJohno
Special Instructions: Cryptic. Rot13 hint for a second step after grid is solved: Rvtug oveqf ner uvqqra va gur fbyirq tevq, zvtengvat rnfgjneqf orgjrra nafjref.
Across
- Cook up brat all of a sudden (6)
- Knock back target on course (3)
- Journey across grand crest (5)
- Expert in a department (5)
- Let everyone with ring be married (7)
- Coiffure for each male (4)
- Exchange with second coven member (6)
- Othello, perhaps, in back room (4)
- Unsettled Leo Messi might hear this from crowd (3)
- Small afterparty for two in Madrid (3)
- Has wealth on a road in Burton, perhaps (7)
- Furious mother meets bad end (3)
- Gent with honours before November (3)
- One after realigned chakra in Pakistan (7)
- Catch insect, even (3)
- Time to go to your short king, found in Ankara (4)
- Scots know of doll (3)
- Hurry to get Ian, perhaps (4)
- It's said you will make note of seasonal cake (4,3)
- Question for union leader and ward in charge on fourth of July (5)
- Crazy paves for scooter (5)
- Argument in line (3)
Down
- Despatches after self-starter (5)
- Prepares deer as I cook (7)
- Artefact from republic with no inn (5)
- Feathers in this orientation? (4)
- A politician and speaker (3)
- More raw remix is catchy (7)
- Pair get haircut outside youth centre (3)
- Make entry for odd hyena noise (4,2)
- Blushing about date (3)
- Mark's small vehicle (4)
- Rock and roll pioneer's tile that's spotted in a game? (6)
- Cunning curved structure (4)
- Uncertain about our nets (3,4)
- PM's missing energy drink (3)
- Movie slasher with agitated urge to chase Kelvin to Ecuador borders (7)
- Mole or spot (3)
- Light wood with a flat stone backing (5)
- Fling worth re-arranging (5)
- A blueish alternate option at the bar (4)
- Crucial shift, perhaps (3)
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