Cryptic crossword No 2,680
Sat 30 Aug 2025, set byLeoNessie
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Across
- High interest in usual tomfoolery — business up front, party in the back (5)
- Returned to subs’ seats, um — he's hardly in the spotlight (11)
- Frosty re split around rejected treatise (6)
- Cob’s boy, say — youth gone from glory, then in fiasco (6)
- Precise English up front - no exceptions! (5)
- Heard you tussled returning for food (4)
- Note hot spot for fish (4)
- Featured in clue: German left with takeaway (3,5)
- Whiskey-tinged singers change lines (8)
- Smart: Yield meekly, willingly! (2,6)
- Benefit from swapping back offices of worldwide startups (6)
- Bookworm fails a grade reading "Praiseworthy" for Nobel laureate (6)
- Heard Christmas time setter's friend's the best (8)
- Apple pairing, that is, after odd rounds in bar (4)
- “Darn!”: floats cast off foredeck’s head (4)
Down
- Nearly all wet, but not me (4)
- Prepared for, primed to be under pressure today (2,2)
- Motif missing here (5)
- Completely adore Canadian jazz singer—and her openers off setlist (7)
- Remarkable, fashionable topless supporter of country (4)
- Eventually, pure customer is the final arbiter (7,5)
- Rush-hour drivers’ Minis rebadged to Peugeots, becoming workhorses (9)
- Film dive as a kick misses French one acrobatically (9)
- Malaysia's ambassador’s craft, said to endure after shipwreck (2,5)
- Gatekeepers' lot: tide turned as SRO patrons exited stage left (7)
- Weenies in a trayful, tails off, he made my way (5,7)
- Resentful society: bottom 50% out of work (4)
- Civility—Carnaby Street vibe, opposition ditched (7)
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