Cryptic crossword No 2,664
Sat 23 Aug 2025, set byCatnip
Special Instructions: Inspired by Coot and Skirwingle
Across
- Hill retreats for a traveller (5)
- Faced up to account and estimated outgoings (8)
- Agents with intelligence seeing US in a mess (8)
- Perhaps one attending The Crucible sees shot taken on by O'Sullivan? (8)
- Saw publicity campaign takes time (5)
- Catnip's trailing policeman for a small sum (4)
- Slip up and get a job (6)
- Not a chance leaders of administration stop insulting foreigners! (2,2)
- Someone whose medical problem is comparatively upsetting around start of night? (6)
- Pointless thematic reaction to a disappointing draw at Scrabble? (6)
- Someone who wrote a ridiculous amount, omitting nothing (5)
- Miss where to put rubbish (4)
- Nasty people out of TV show right away (6)
- Waste an opportunity to win convincingly (4,4)
- Idiot following potty revolutionary (4)
- Possibly Chris Hoy racing here? (5)
Down
- Inferior cooling device brought about relief in the end (4)
- Fire can be so hot (5)
- US network covering strange particles (6)
- Student Union newspaper sent up Apprentice's boss (5)
- Lean boy chopped up sausage (7)
- Go mad and throw up? (4)
- Horse to carry around tramp (6)
- Heavenly but lacking in the sack (7)
- Dog noses around perfectly innocent property (8)
- Respond grumpily to noise from children's game? (4)
- Fitting places to stick your oar into arguments circling bar (8)
- Somewhat red ally abandoning Britain for Russia (5)
- Repair held up by Italian radicals (4)
- Obscure type of confection (5)
- Bright bird without tail (7)
- Poles supporting chance to entertain King Charles (7)
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