Cryptic crossword No 2,681
Mon 1 Sep 2025, set byHeron
Special Instructions: There is a theme, hinted at in one of the answers, but knowledge of it is not necessary to solve the crossword.
Across
- Damaged liner losing energy might need these volunteers (4)
- Go back to outskirts of Lausanne for impertinent look (4)
- Pirate captain used to make sparks fly (5)
- Specific prisoner alongside island (8)
- Pearl and Penny on the rampage after law breaking background (9)
- Great delivery of ball in football game (5,4)
- Subdues animals (4)
- Walk slowly out of Lake District town without interest (5)
- Violinist maybe in shady enclosure (5)
- Still time for meditation (7)
- Rashly mix halogen with deuterium (8)
- Permitted everyone to be paid (7)
- Start to decry art movement (4)
- Discussed more daring rock climb (7)
- Film in excellent gallery (7)
Down
- Tape elastoplast over skin (4)
- Fish in Aberdonian glen (5)
- Draw away moisture at first when in clingy kagoule (4)
- Pick-up truck in Blackpool, say (5)
- Getting ready to move house, couple cryptically doing this? (7,2)
- Scrub from the summer in France (6)
- National symbol found in bottom of boat after capsizing (4)
- Reward working in certain part of a day (6)
- Pay for slick hotel in place for pedestrians only (8)
- Fearful of disastrous Cold War before end of century (8)
- Hand cart found in burial mound (6)
- Modest tea set broken (6)
- One note in red instrument (8)
- Plant in dampish earth (4)
- Smart clothing at expert fitting (8)
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