Cryptic crossword No 2,653
Tue 19 Aug 2025, set byArkhipov
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Across
- One German is performing with lyre and fiddle in Wagner composition (9,5)
- Stump headless idiot (6)
- The Scottish Play's leads - McKellen and Dench for instance (8)
- Section from independent day-book tracking loans (10)
- I'm somehow carrying silver, these guys carried gold and more (4)
- Pleasantville? (4)
- Fall ceased strangely behind schedule (2-8)
- Part with ease, possibly? (8)
- A miracle occurred here and for the most part it was promised by God (6)
- Winding up and delicately striking like Scheffler and McIlroy, so it's said (7,1,4,2)
- Andorran crown enables corrupt PM (8)
- Answer with regard to a court case (5)
- Interweaved design that can be transferred in turn (5)
- Extract from, perhaps, Odysseia (8)
Down
- Boredom or incompletion from wait****ing? (12)
- Whip that is whipped (5)
- Yellow animated duck gets clipped with a bit of liquor after cricket match (8)
- Mid-sprint, I fall (4)
- Etc., an abbreviation for denoting limitless others, is Latin (3,3,4)
- Wretched philosophy leads to perverse cruelty (6)
- That fellow pens left and right-wing letters in obscurity (4)
- A dominant member (5)
- Repot a hideous shrub with cone-like flowers (6)
- Crookham? (3,5)
- Show of strength from floundering leader of constitutional republic (5,4)
- He isn't extremely talented, drifting about (10)
- Thoroughly fashionable dandies? (6,3,3)
- A mild, curiously reiterated religious leader (5,4)
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