Cryptic crossword No 2,733
Thu 25 Sep 2025, set byHasslethymi
Special Instructions: Published in 7 Directory, Preston Pages and West of the Clee magazines, plus www.stokestmilborough.info (December 2025)
Across
- Sexy East Europeans changing their tops? They drive motorists round the bend! (8)
- Oscar is put in jail for firstly replicating strychnine, for example (6)
- Single guy is gutted and gloomy (6)
- The chief of the economic department finally yielding influence (6)
- Persuasive speech given by King Henry before erotic dancing (8)
- Block of text contains Royal Marine chart (9)
- Seriousness of department adjoining hospital (5)
- Assemble box containing a bit of elastic (6)
- Old friend gets around old city (6)
- Salt of the Adriatic possibly working (6)
- Perhaps hawthorn attracts only half of workers (5)
- Was a resident wearing religious clothing, Edward? (9)
- Large church has one priest (8)
- Quietly giving the nod to digging (6)
- In parts of Somerset, cheddar is carved (6)
- Lie dying horribly for giving way (8)
Down
- Rotted away (3)
- Sporting tattoos reflected in switchblade knife (5)
- Writings from enlightened age: genuine but with content switched (10)
- Noiseless playing of football world champions (9)
- He'll play along with weird masonic pact (11)
- Ascertain animal shelter with raised floor is hot (9)
- Animal hospital administrator initially accepts Japanese money (5)
- Trips awkwardly around first of clothes lines (6)
- Adds water to returned casserole (4)
- Repair central canteen after collapse (11)
- e.g. in favour of former partner getting more than enough (3,7)
- Gardener gymnastically revealing hidden strength (6)
- Boss swept away dust (4)
- Sister caught in conundrum (3)
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