Cryptic crossword No 2,797
Tue 28 Oct 2025, set byEssBee
Special Instructions: Those of a certain age should recognise a theme running through clues and answers. This might help. (Some definitions require knowledge of the theme.) There's a little more help in the comments.
Across
- Portable computer, one hidden in hippie's home (3)
- Ring, Ring's drummer not a member of ABBA (5)
- One night they drove this old thing down 25's southern stretch (5)
- The Stones recorded Ruby on this (7)
- Terribly soz for squeezing and using a lot of force (9)
- They apply colours—various reds over a splash of yellow (5)
- Perennial striker sacked (7)
- Some fellow Googles "BJ" by accident (3,6)
- Until the end of the abridged sketch (7)
- With Israel at war, they cry (7)
- BJ Thomas song: Tears of a Cloud? (9)
- Eighteen months before anyone can remember? (4,3)
- Jackass's feeding interrupted by American Woman (4-1-4)
- Ignoring the odds, 17 set out for the Land of the Free (3)
- Doctor, on purpose or not, lets the cat out of the bag (5,2)
- Topless, Eve's embracing semi-nude star? (5)
Down
- 10's other half in audience with lead singer? (4)
- Man hunted by cowboys and a US state (7)
- Sees fruit (5)
- 1976 Bob Dylan ballad is recorded twice (4)
- Extensive measures briefly employed in Westminster? (3)
- I proceed to be cast ... and cast again (8)
- Marvel superheroine's stunning weapon (7)
- What might inscrutable coteries be? (8)
- Sound, and nothing but (4)
- Simon & Garfunkel's second-last hit is crossover? (6)
- EW&F song (radio edit) (4)
- Group from Sweden's members taking part in amateur open (6)
- Film right at a critical time—between bingo and things getting out of hand (1,4,4,5)
- Bread starter's second stage: fermenting (5)
- See 21d
- Kinky bandleader—dare I say very kinky? (3,6)
- Unknown group runs around? Quite the opposite—Phil Collins played with them! (5,1)
- Cissy's issue? Non-white youths rioting (7,7)
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