Cryptic crossword No 2,774
Sat 18 Oct 2025, set byChlorine
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Across
- Gets one back in two days - swell! (7)
- Start to tear up, or maybe down? (5)
- Island where I un-age, cryptically? (3,6)
- Hypnotises The Doors? (9)
- Legal observer finally - finally - admits America is rubbish (5)
- Transferral of energy beam, off every now and then (3)
- Headdress shunning head of the city (5)
- What Ofsted do: no place for praise (5)
- Cat chasing drained, sweaty politician, causing a rash? (7)
- In Lublin, I'm consuming Eastern European food (5)
- Article defends company run as defunct IT firm (5)
- Encourage return of golf international by Trinity term, producing young talent (7)
- Dodgy rental corroded replacement (9)
- Put Sodium before Chlorine for source of Ytterbium or Berkelium, say? (9)
- Old group of singers arrange table, hosting suitable comeback (3,4)
Down
- State thanks, amid uncertain expression (4)
- Grill chicken with flowering plant (8)
- Maybe get unstable measure of memory (8)
- Maybe Peter, Paul and Mary are not on board (6)
- Wise guy: how to organise Victoria's Secret warehouse? (8)
- City's wearing fur coat (5)
- Second-hand sample in shade, sun rising (4)
- Where gangster crocodiles reportedly live? No they don't! (6)
- Arrive before strike (4)
- Bad smell a reason for being unable to buy booze? Apparently like us! (8)
- Equivalent to mutant, an eccentric (10)
- Dirty Ian, he rearranged - it's a date! (2,3,5)
- Dismiss court from 7, riotous breakout (4)
- Cry for help over exchange with disrupted rest, resulting in mental strain (6)
- Dolphin missing every roly-poly (4)
- Excitement from sidelines of hockey games (4)
- 5 disaster to lose passport, perhaps? (6)
- Pattern lines across interlocking directions initially? (5)
Chlorine has provided annotated solutions for this crossword.
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