Cryptic crossword No 2,795
Mon 27 Oct 2025, set bySpuggy
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Special Instructions: I hope you don't mind the unusual grid. It seemed fitting.
Across
- He conceals base instincts in disguise (4)
- Duty to turn clock back (5)
- Starts to scream or shriek in a cry for help (3)
- Front of lorry missing back, back, back (3)
- Maybe vampire lurks incubating? (3)
- Finally, chill in spine that can describe 21a, 23a (especially at 1), 25a and 27a (5)
- Come together for 1 season in America in best tie (4,4,5)
- Enthralled by witch, all owe enchanted 24 or 25d today (9)
- Devilish erotic clothing - one often in spandex tights (4)
- Cause of inflation family is usually cut up about this time of year (7)
- Partner of sin with belly dance finally in dress (7)
- Taped creepy expert (5)
- Beat guy genetically opposed to GTA? (3)
- Hot stuff whose involvement would make S&M party finally steamy (3)
- Alien grey spy abducting coward, expelling potassium with supernatural force (7,6)
- Content of delivery for fair and party (7,4)
Down
- Friendly topless friend (4)
- Reacts in shock, losing head at slimy creatures (4)
- Send a Brummie's mother off for spice (8)
- Rubbed soap, but nothing dissolved in bath (3)
- After refiguring: ninety, not nothing (9)
- Simple like soda (5)
- Prickly types around beginning of play (5)
- Prematurely terminated pact of 24 or ...? (5)
- Here, you'll find gladiators are North American (5)
- Father abandoned enemy of snakes... or 25d? (5)
- Catch fish - catch them with what? These aren't mobile (9)
- Plan warehouse fight, some would say (8)
- Disaster of Spooner's scourge ogre (9)
- 23a that's small and uniform (3)
- Demon ensnaring girl in ring - that can be seedy (5)
- Rude-sounding fliers see courts detaining criminal leader in defendant's box (9)
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