Cryptic crossword No 2,665
Sun 24 Aug 2025, set byJohno
Special Instructions: Cryptic. Across answers are to be entered such that the last letter of an answer overlaps (and is necessarily the same) as the first letter of the next answer in the same row (e.g. if answers are CAT, TOAD and DOG, enter CATOADOG). Clues in across rows are given in correct order left to right. The overlapping letters spell a cluephrase for a final answer. Down clues behave normally.
Across
- Rat can be good after evil act (4); Designer golf uniform - extremely chic one (5); Bury football club (5); Skin chore no good (4) (15)
- Endless money in old Monte Carlo (6); Bishop pursuing gold sphere (3); Crow going to a Portuguese city (5); Pavlova a nan cooked (4) (15)
- Massive, eye-opening image (4); Die making throaty sound (5); Stark changes in small vehicles (5); Fruit from stall, it's said (4) (15)
- Stone, perhaps, in ecosystem management (4); Capone with weapon is a wake-up call (5); Native to wander around island (5); I upload regularly from device (4) (15)
- Fellow caught in Manchester, briefly (4); Contrast left in notes (5); Militia head holds back nation (5); Columbia government concealing traitorous villain (4) (15)
- Extension for video of my pledge, oddly (4); Cheesy pair back in Georgia? (5); Heroine in fantasy is a royal with new reflection (5); Lizard with trap to capture wife (4) (15)
- Careful reasoning starts to lead obnoxious gasbag into conniptions (5); Burn most of graph (4); Wine from port in Germany? Yes! (5); Continent is found - looking back - in empty area (4) (15)
- Comfort from her life without husband bumbling (6); Reportedly weak fake by fighter (5); Never came back in race with bully (6) (15)
Down
- Ooze with concealed energy (7)
- Nausea harms senior leaders who employ nurses (1,1,1)
- First two turned up from the moon, showing nerve (5)
- Pirate track heard over breeze (7)
- Peace in Northern Ireland dashed before a victory is secured (7)
- Reduced significance of number (5)
- "Not out!" heard in pub (3)
- Nowhere to go for late goal! (4, 3) (7)
- Eminem's remix is huge (7)
- Mathematician's California residence? (7)
- Learner would ignore the odds in text message: Ha! (3)
- Run toward traitor (3)
- One who is soft-spoken to be silent before bishop left ward (7)
- Pout with calamitous facades (3, 4) (7)
- Charge with a pronounced harness (7)
- Pariah at large with troupe (7)
- One time uniform is held is just the right moment (2, 3) (5)
- Joe cooked with New York relish (5)
- Score for Messi in initial game of league (3)
- Father follows his last resort (3)
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