Cryptic crossword No 2,812
Fri 31 Oct 2025, set byyogdaws
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Special Instructions: In celebration of a 50th anniversary
Across
- Nearly roll over at school (5)
- The greatest singer on the planet? (7)
- Captivating, largely atypical seventies song is considered primarily a masterpiece (7)
- Chart-topper on drugs after anaesthetic (6,3)
- A number one single (5)
- Rarely stop among 22 across? (3)
- EE infested with rodents, leaving behind one music player (5)
- Empty shop is housing redback, funnel-webs and black widows (7)
- Raw apple cooked with a little bit of leek as an alternative to paint? (9)
- Mime 'A_CDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR________'? (5)
- Stormy night in eastern half of Stirling features this (9)
- The Corrs hit: a tune played by them? (9)
- Middle Eastern place around western Abu Dhabi's outskirts? (5)
- Monarch taking part in grotesque entertainment (5)
- Scientist has ‘illegal’ detailed model picturing Earth’s orbit? (7)
Down
- Plant genus loves to take in cold liquid (6)
- Sprinter to run really fast (4)
- Good bridge player leads diamonds (4)
- I’d like banks to do nothing (4)
- Oh my word, what a 70’s chart-topper! (5,3)
- Noisy hit from group and its lead (5)
- You must order quite badly (8,2)
- Last day on the borders of Kansas for many years (5)
- Grease? Clean it with this material (8)
- Guitarist with rock band once used to make money? (4,4)
- Shoots goody two-shoes on board ship (6)
- Mathematician I clued poorly (6)
- Put on something that’s not quite ‘_____ The Champions’? (4)
- A below average soldier (4)
- Nervous before world gardening day finishes (4)
- Mollusc suit? Nightmare! (5,5)
- Racial abuse in the capital of Columbia (6)
- A brilliant seventies operatic lied starts subtle, regularly seen as perfect (8)
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