Cryptic crossword No 2,662
Fri 22 Aug 2025, set byHeron
Special Instructions: There is a theme ...
Across
- Rustle affects sound of a clock (4,5)
- Irregularity when TV award returned ahead of bother (9)
- Esteemed case of reputable court put in dispatch (9)
- Pursue extract from Sappho underhandedly (5)
- Artisan in Hollywood, maybe (5)
- Boss beginning to yawn in office (5)
- Lay out on record: not working in holidays (4,3)
- Quiet diplomacy surrounding one vase (8)
- Does this potentate measure up? (5)
- Release online task? (8)
- Flower suffering early wilt (5,4)
- Cook eased in flavouring (7)
- Grasp article in rage (6)
- Fixed up-to-the minute camping equipment (6)
Down
- God absorbing origins of old lore - wisdom could be one of them! (6)
- Throw snow at doctor (6)
- Notice of state function (4)
- He hollers and mocks horribly amateur violin player (8,6)
- Plant a container in this way (8)
- Really fashionable act (6)
- Busy engraving silver edition (7)
- Number in favour of taking over university (4)
- Pioneer might push this (8)
- Red mark left by a little wound? (7)
- Brushes over small - very small - afterthought (6)
- Smooth and speedy dressmaker may do this (8)
- See 18d
- Steer haphazardly before particular kind of junction in thoroughfare (6)
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