Cryptic crossword No 2,701
Tue 9 Sep 2025, set byArkhipov
Special Instructions: Please provide feedback and tell me your favourite clues!
Across
- Trail runner included in fantastic father (9)
- Suppress street fight after commencement (8)
- Has snow formed? (4)
- Mysterious augur initially labelled a herb (7)
- Princesses are allowed to appal (6)
- In which I contain essentials (4)
- Grandmaster Tang, say, picked up the queen (7)
- Here, that extraordinary planet (3,5)
- Over the top earrings have got heads turning in poorer district (6)
- Devils were fashioned that could thrive on fertile land (10)
- Relish the French pronunciation of the saint (4)
- Design tipped left a lot (4)
- That could be too big for Shark Tank? (5,5)
- One could be intolerant towards this duck's entertaining performance (7)
- Primarily bold and subdued wordplay recurrently exploded (5-2)
- Kiss involved in deliriously endless affection for governmental authority (3,6)
Down
- Sound like an instrument? (2,3,2,1,6)
- Pick up judge (4)
- Populist anthem of extremely likeable pope, perhaps (3,2,3,6)
- We act in tandem during chess musical? (3,4,3,1)
- Decide to go without wares? (5,3)
- Attendant raises the cover charge (3,7)
- Exotic estates accommodating hawk mosaics (11)
- He reacted heartlessly for a change and added fuel to the fire (8)
- Started chapter zero (6)
- Essentially odious obligation (1,1,1)
- Here you'll score aplenty, possibly, and give and receive blows (7,3)
- Bricklayers working inside public service (6)
- This man forewent covering up (4)
- Compassionate front that hurts bully (3)
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