Cryptic crossword No 2,810
Thu 30 Oct 2025, set bySkirwingle
Special Instructions: Never mind the 'Brompton' grid :-P
Across
- Night flier upset the Lord, we groan (5,6,3)
- Give away too much on allotment (9)
- It’s used to stir shit in tin (5)
- I stop her being held by awful lecher who acted in 2 movies (11,3)
- Called into Home Office at last, as within scope (2,5)
- After five in the morning, irrational about bat? (7)
- The rain battered plant in ground (7)
- Bad start in dance? This one’s revolting (5)
- Horribly drown lured souls here (10)
- Gaunt rogue swears about old university (10)
- Fix dire in-app channel of waste (9)
- Most silly place for eggs (7)
Down
- Boring person who really gets inside your head (9)
- Here is (for Macron) the most chilling (6)
- See 18d
- ’Less British, more English’ in troubled Roy Webb feature (7)
- Possibly superb passerine Beryl Reid cooked, losing some energy (8)
- Plane taking good number out of French city? (5)
- I’ll defend Catherine after commercial voice-over (8)
- 5¢ fee to acquire popular actor (7,5)
- Where to enter answer, ‘Pitt’? (6)
- Actor selling drugs all round Crete, sadly (5,7)
- Some said it told the same thing (5)
- Unimportant person beat other game-players on the way up (6)
- Formerly healthy duke had a blow-out (7)
- Around lunchtime, working to support last of the French noble scholars’ calling (9)
- Tool for a pound (6)
- See 21d
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