Cryptic crossword No 2,762
Fri 10 Oct 2025, set byTug
Special Instructions: If you haven't played the 2007 Flash game "The Impossible Quiz," this puzzle may be impossible! Every Across clue contains a reference to the quiz in its wordplay or definition.
Across
- Hairless one throwing horseshoe from aurora? He confusedly chases very tailless rabbit (6,9)
- Wrong to alarm Mexican king -- it's the end of the world! (11,4)
- Notes rubbish Yankee captures Count Dracula (5,5)
- Backwards answer about a spiritual leader with heart of amazing love in Michigan city (9)
- Onion's root twice pruned with work near the surface (7)
- There are four holes in this extremely goofy defence (7)
- Bothered through bearing letter on bag (5)
- Bud's beginning to whip demand forgetting what follows December 2nd (4)
- Device to measure angles in word under bomb exploding one time with resistance (10)
- Spinning around at sound of bell, loses tooth (4)
- Drag second-lowest when descending, boring ten million with phrase (5)
- Financial expert starts to excoriate concert over noise, one's elephantine dislike, with street bumping nowadays (9)
- What my dog uses to smell after offensive bacterial infection (7)
- Holder of seven letters making kind of drive to get to partner (7)
Down
- In the style of gardens at an angle (5)
- Below poor area by front of rectory is fantastic cross (7)
- Hug him selflessly? Yes, wow! (2,2)
- Advanced in northbound mucky tributary (5)
- Unique total eclipse's center beneath small crescent originally in the morning (9)
- Answer question you accepted and remain otherwise blue (10)
- Under protection of the Pope, south leaves United Kingdom (7)
- Borrow a term Arkane holds in sign of copyright (9)
- One hundred ace Virginia hands raised leaderless enemy soldiers (10)
- Struggle with pit on unusual slant (9)
- Churchgoing woman died believing peace at heart with company by head (9)
- One transcribing Bobby's manuscript ultimately over year (7)
- Jumbled abaci impressing Rowan Atkinson, initially becoming Bean (7)
- Zip at lightspeed? Henry's under record time! (5)
- Trapped in building at edifice with doors (5)
- Debunk fan theory's ship after Juliet unites with Romeo at last (4)
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