Cryptic crossword No 2,708
Fri 12 Sep 2025, set byHasslethymi
Special Instructions: First published in 7 Directory, Preston Pages and West of the Clee magazines, plus www.stokestmilborough.info (November 2025)
Across
- Curious as Trump's offspring inherits about a penny (9)
- Bits held back in thong (5)
- Giving a new name to ginger nuts with substandard filling (9)
- Extract of parsnip ultimately brought back with another plant (5)
- Staying put in majestic kingdom (8)
- Midway through sojourn a lady reveals diary... (7)
- Spotted toboggan carrying Gregory, perhaps (8)
- Little swine broke leg in coalmine (6)
- Argument with expressionless extremists, for example (5)
- Cure strut buckling in building (9)
- Level platform (5)
- Craftsmen replacing Charlie with George then reorganising sections (9)
- A maths problem leads to breathing difficulty (6)
- ... and adorable lady getting disheartened in a big way (7)
Down
- Opening account with the Church of England's Head of Spending (6)
- Came across one and four getting enunciated in figure of speech (8)
- Mark of shame that originally gets hidden by Greek character (6)
- Observe repartee lacking this oddly (7)
- Fastened around the end of clapper as chimed (6)
- Something carrying a charge in South African province is relevant to the entire country (8)
- Element of jazz in classic metal (4)
- Associate is brutally cut off at the waist (4)
- Breather during exercise dive (6)
- In cahoots to capture that woman (8)
- They rewrote the script, tried so desperately (7)
- Care fee (6)
- Overturning of Qatar referendum reveals hidden mistakes (6)
- Looking the other way when love quietly gets put aside at last (8)
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