Cryptic crossword No 2,753
Mon 6 Oct 2025, set byncalder17
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Special Instructions: Themed Cryptic #1: "POWERS OF 10" Clues marked with * are themed clues
Across
- Ruins sound of instrument (5)
- Perhaps monitor daughter after bar, coming back with unknown quantity imbibed (6)
- * 10 old-fashioned Americans regularly drop the ball here (1,6)
- Held back in class, I'm all out of sorts (5)
- One not partaking in drink round very loudly putting away more bread? (6,3)
- * Activity involving tongues of fire in church, with every one leaving before 10 (6,1)
- Significance of a Liberal replacing Conservative in study (8)
- Funny movies ultimately released from Universal (5)
- Fish scale's second glimmer (3)
- Crowd to surge around monarch from the East (6)
- Fault in second set? (4)
- Old character in joint quietly moving to the front (3)
- Finally eliminate flaw study found within testimony (8)
- Dictator's victim to appeal to ultimate authority (4)
- Right side of lighting panel has new digital features (9)
- Insulin taken regularly after contracting terminal condition caused by inactivity (5)
- * According to Destiny's Child hype agent, no concerts and events to start after 10 (1,6)
- * How to write 10 + 10 as Brutus did? (6-1)
Down
- * 10 reliable cycling products are found in these (1,6)
- Test side accepting unknown in charge with some amusement (11)
- Retains sailor on ship going around globe (7)
- Part of Italy that's central to Napoleon, the overthrown leader in banishment, being kept therein? (4)
- Playing A-flat major in a certain way? (5)
- Despondent after principal's evicted and deported (7)
- Uncovered exclusive story in communication from singer (3)
- * Way to revive 10 old flicks, releasing half with leads from Fonda and Eastwood (1,2,4)
- Noted channel to harshly review a coat with pelts from African animal (6,5)
- Flame once on aircraft, reportedly to provide illumination (7)
- Haute cuisine primarily cooked around a French estate (7)
- Prominent visitor skipping two streets in row (5)
- Exhausted American died taking drug (4)
- Tree which remains after fire (3)
- All cut to heart, celebrity regrets briefly showing new tracks to bitter producer (7)
- * 10-penny English cars somehow succeed, but only just (6,1)
- * Beginning of Isaiah Chapter 10 in support of church officer's religious iconography (6,1)
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