Cryptic crossword No 2,778
Sun 19 Oct 2025, set byJeremysIron
Special Instructions: Not exactly a theme, but one clue does have a connection to several of the others. It also describes how I create puzzles! Enjoy and feedback welcome.
Across
- Sporadic occurrences of desirable sex workers circling beach (4,3,6)
- Issues with European Union lacking resistance against head of Serbia (7)
- It's simple: I give up (7)
- Weighty letters between physician and self quoted by Luke? (7)
- Wieners sometimes made of crushed rats in USA (9)
- Missing second half, this fool keeled over drunk (5)
- Turning around, copper encounters drug on board, leading to charges (7)
- Just some hemp rope rugs (6)
- Recoil from bird biting hand (6)
- Reportedly, no public school saved for tomorrow? (7)
- Doctor Who creature when caught expressed surprise (5)
- Reveal to reverend where one's partner dwells? (3,4)
- Moving to Nigeria in spring (9)
Down
- Reader's picked up by oddly deficient Golf - hardly modern (2,4)
- Nervy way to access the web (2,4)
- Times when people let go, as happened in Carthage and Rome (8)
- Comeuppance for setter eating horse sandwich? (6)
- Deceitful London institution gets nothing (5)
- Go where sailors go (4)
- No doubt lad on vacation religiously uses mobile (9)
- Denounced and shouted about parasite taking lives for king (10)
- Sweet, heartless Antarctic? (6)
- Blast and G-- darn it! (4)
- Standing stone almost eroded before dusk, essentially (6)
- Killer song in charts upset Vietnam (6)
- Mistake found in temperature and air for artificial habitats (8)
- How footballers might keep ball going round (9)
- Free love in shed (5)
- Enjoy wacky Tibetan pop (3,7)
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