Cryptic crossword No 2,651
Mon 18 Aug 2025, set byEsrom
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Across
- Soldiers return in the middle of Gateshead with culture (4)
- Bess is soon confused by things (10)
- Key Nazis sheltered by Panama harbour (8)
- Model cycling around Switzerland for ages (6)
- Australian idiot lacking energy returned in charge of Scandinavia (6)
- Dash of bread and out of date parsley (7)
- Charm female and French, somewhat (6)
- At some time in the past you nicked regularly (4)
- Places in office a Chancellor might go? (8)
- Limits security surrounding university sign (10)
- Cricket teams wanting new repositioning at cover (6)
- What you might be paid for being just late? (8)
- Winning silver in Mini motor ahead of Golf (8)
- Journalist tailing Whitehall official, say, is dismissed (7)
Down
- Imprison a friend having the best time up in many different countries (15)
- Fireworks from the sorcerer, for example (5,5)
- Cuckoo in parasitic state might be wild danger here? (9,6)
- Most bad-tempered Charlie, having lost his head, is buried next to junction (7)
- Do-gooders picked up jam worker, personnel and operations involving adherent (15)
- Stages require small set-up (4)
- Scarcity of boxes points to empty suitcases (10)
- Headless Romeo at an end (4)
- Dead central to Buddhist or Yoga philosophy (7)
- Reshuffle bet incriminates member of the government (7,8)
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