Cryptic crossword No 2,678
Sat 30 Aug 2025, set byJohno
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Across
- Mix-up leads to deals (7)
- Win small Dutch cheeses regularly (7)
- Giant figure - it's covered in bronze (5)
- Wind down at the beach with cocktail (3, 6) (9)
- Search for brush (4)
- Alternative position of low peril? (3, 7) (10)
- Get up with company (6)
- Lark with reserve where chestnuts can be found? (8)
- Return from performing choir, etc. (8)
- Crooked character to sleep in the East End (2-4)
- Hollow valentine reframed wildly in surreal night-time experience (5, 5) (10)
- Might quarrel? (4)
- No chance, of course, with Jack caught in noose (2,3,4)
- Downright articulate (5)
- Exceptional excerpt from text remembrance (7)
- Record left-winger's lessened (7)
Down
- Arizona regulars at peace with old Mexican (5)
- Gold model assembled from atomic parts without thinking (9)
- Arena band (4)
- Odd moods lower city (6)
- Head cleaner's bogus number two (7)
- Load vehicle and leave (5)
- First lady's night (3)
- Reported on observed part of act (5)
- Lie flat in bed, initially (3)
- See figure sign (3)
- Lining of quartz in cast metal (4)
- Officer and rating introductions observed on boats often (3)
- Inky spray (3)
- Early leader overtaken in starting race (4)
- One taking extra courses done with exam first, after forgetting folio (9)
- King one to start political change in Laos (3)
- Indicate both sides holding clubs and diamonds (3)
- In Rome, I feel less tense (3)
- Afternoon lost - and nothing gained - in baffling preamble found below Listener (7)
- Update passed on to gutted scout (6)
- Surround criminal dealer (5)
- Sounds like time for thyme? (5)
- Dismissed Liverpool player after foot collides with Ipswich head (5)
- Crack left after dropping tin opener on top of plate (4)
- Husband departed with jest (3)
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