Cryptic crossword No 2,740
Mon 29 Sep 2025, set byTemple
Special Instructions: With twenty-six clues, each solution begins with a different letter of the alphabet.
Across
- Spanish golfer edges the French record holder (6)
- Assertive sort of clue for colt (5,3)
- Unbeholden to cigarettes and alcohol? (4-4)
- Extras quietly go through script involving lots of people (10)
- Coasts of Canada turn into heart of luxury - an idyllic place (6)
- Nickel and silver returning profit (4)
- Warm fish sticks? (8)
- Funny noise? (8)
- Magic Circle is behind Five Rings trick (6)
- Pack that lady’s diamonds (4)
- One old acting head (6)
- Stop moving static quill (4,2,5)
- Distant visitor from cyberspace becomes friend on the inside (10)
Down
- Teach lot of monkeys about how to make people laugh (3,3,4)
- Happy going out and modernising (8)
- Loves including Hawaii as one of the states (4)
- Sappers must get in shape again (7)
- Actively demean main thing rarely used after wedding (6,4)
- Does this crew member wait on the stairs? (6,9)
- New lucid AI supports head of jury in relation to the court (8)
- Topless poet climbs volcano (4)
- In a word: what birds typically do with cheese topping (7)
- Hyperbolic figure poorly housed in Jerusalem (7)
- Surety provided by back of top shelf (6)
- Team initially cannot agree, splitting bill for American vehicle (7)
- Queen swear in bit of music (6)
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