Cryptic crossword No 2,794
Sun 26 Oct 2025, set byMedian
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Across
- Revised broker fee once for encyclopedia, say (9,4)
- Perhaps stealing continuously is an attempt to get attention (4)
- Non-drinking sailors associated with anxiety, we're told (10)
- Ultimately, Trump was first, for example, to overturn promise (6)
- They treat bruises coolly (8)
- Animal has reason to be selfish (9)
- Timekeeper in every race starts row (4)
- Cushions for homes (4)
- Ready to wear from stock (3-3-3)
- Maybe penance for girl taking cold shower (4,4)
- One with affected attitudes regrets work in retrospect (6)
- Rear over gap and keep talking (10)
- Underground TV (4)
- Disguised an escaped pair vanishing (13)
Down
- Bad influence of some monks at a nunnery (5)
- Right result upset horse thief (7)
- Smelly feet evoked times irritating dormitory leaders (5)
- Deer ran out, causing driver to do this? ... (4-3)
- ... which, if lucky, took this, but doesn't matter to me (2,4,3,2,4)
- It's odd that the Spanish match is cut short (6)
- In Berlin, East is East entertains breakdown firm to send to Coventry (9)
- Critic lets arrivals announce themselves? (7)
- Wild lust with a nude goes in waves (9)
- Capital transfer from right to left and down was a nuisance (7)
- Best clothing programme (3,4)
- Smooth bishop in the same science centre (7)
- Plant where, Spooner says, insect has short sleep (6)
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