Cryptic crossword No 2,686
Wed 3 Sep 2025, set bySkirwingle
Special Instructions: I’ve been kicking this one around for weeks; thought I might as well put it out there.
Across
- Woman hiding in Walmart (4)
- Fusion of French sea and German (6)
- Tool journalist noticed (7)
- Intelligence is painful (6)
- I bash out address for respected European abroad (5)
- Hail Reform deputy blowing his top (3)
- Bug found in a version of Windows (3)
- Do they deliver Morrisons shoes? (4)
- Well-adjusted person ... or maladjusted, inside? (6)
- Bud exercises in automobile (5)
- Gloss over price cut (8)
- Jeer a follower making mistake (4)
- Eating alfresco, prevent insect buzzing around cup mostly (8)
- Stock index’s new question about Associated Dairies (6)
- Where to study harmony? No thank you! (3)
- Unexpected second chances (4)
- Maybe keywords of A. Tate: ‘mad’, ‘corrupt’ ...? (8)
- Extreme group of otters with heads turning (5)
- You owe her 100 rupees; she’s making cuts (8)
- Make certain Rajpur’s tail-ender escapes follow on (5)
- Get on order of business without confidentiality agreement (3)
- Contact I arranged with Alison (7)
Down
- A quick dash through Co-op? (6)
- On the counter, 4 out of 22 shells (4)
- Slow onset of orders after fast period (5)
- Orders from internet domain – Marks & Spencer? (8)
- Figaro composer (6)
- Boisson pour les anglais? (3)
- Boundless sex drive put me back in the same place (6)
- Old soap found in Carrefour in England (10)
- Revising BSL, Waitrose staff live here (5,6)
- Area reorganised in Tesco (7)
- Elegance hides Skirwingle’s pained expression (7)
- Stop working to tackle suspicious neglect (6)
- Estimates for set-up to support Rossi’s band (6)
- See 13d
- Drivers acquiring new collection of anecdotes (3)
- Ring Aldi when order is wrong (4)
- Scoundrels plan crimes with soldiers (10)
- Does up shabby Somerfield after firing Fiona (8)
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