Cryptic crossword No 2,788
Sat 25 Oct 2025, set byPlatypus
Special Instructions: A collective of 30 setters each provided a clue for this puzzle to celebrate the annual 'Sloggers & Betters' event in York, 24th/25th October 2025
Across
- Perestroika's end is almost certainly recalled here (6)
- Period that includes the present day? (8)
- Cryptic clues describing SI scale (7)
- Fantasising about finally leaving rubbish campsites (8)
- Latest: Starmer's reshuffle skewered by leader of opposition (8)
- Ought apples or grapes occasionally to be in plentiful supply? (6)
- Discontented great-niece wrongly inherited (7)
- Words of encouragement for leading female Midlands horse rider (6)
- Leather inner sole hiding small crack (3-5)
- Body in flat CID discovered strangled by creep in Rope (6)
- Spirit shown by renowned players against master of the game? (6)
- Formerly in C major, G and E, then B and E (8)
- Do papa and I fish for dinner? (6)
- Initially convicted kidnapper has party while imprisoned in Low Newton confinement (8)
Down
- Tedious to cover poorly made variety show? (7)
- Bosses short of time to produce American IPA? (4)
- Token rapper dropping in for bass line (6)
- Single Parisian’s who gets detained for supply (5)
- Wild mushroom's cap found in a well (4)
- Emperor Ras Tafari’s first to be overthrown (4)
- Hang out with Raider renouncing latest love for setter (6)
- The old twisted ugly dwarf in the van is a brute? (7)
- At casualty having ingested drug (8)
- A bit of guidance, ultimately, when flying around? (10)
- Disqualification before Grand Slam (4)
- Main company set up on extremely limited means (5)
- Nails sticking up through brass base of satellite dish (10)
- Norm is protected by Ernest, and ardently (8)
- Which person alights at first stop? (4)
- Two guitarists and drummer, say, split at last over endless debauchery (4)
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