Cryptic crossword No 2,814
Fri 31 Oct 2025, set byGennaro
Special Instructions: 13a is the setting of a hidden film
Across
- A nut from palm on deck (6)
- Blunder with task (6)
- Virginia essentially transcribed a note and quit (6)
- Fire mainly at game bird (8)
- Small amount from moon taken at first by America (4)
- Expert succeeded with developing epic group of celebrities (10)
- Hear, at intervals, agents may dreadfully produce an oppressive state (4,7)
- Expectation of elimination setting monarch on fear oriented rampage primarily (7-3)
- Desire width to be height (4)
- Infections initially baffled medic after record outbreak (8)
- Spontaneous drawing of state aid restricting revolutionary party (6)
- Gets to know the French accepted francs regularly (6)
- Threat of Dutch river on borders of settlements (6)
Down
- Creature of sexual excitement probed by Northern Ireland (8)
- Football Association to lay backwards for beauty treatment (6)
- Synopsis -- mine is in Latin! (6)
- Two spaces in portable shelter for dwelling (8)
- Beginner in latest Colorado band heading North (8)
- Insist on free ticket covering English League (6)
- Private secretary almost losing old time Biblical book (6)
- Bone recipe perplexed Saudi (6)
- Nothing topped by European papa surrounded by mama and savoury food (8)
- Disdains abysmal rudeness, expelling naked dude (6)
- Surprise never ends with respect to female warrior (6)
- Drunkenly fear the heartless, very loud, and shocking treatment for a hangover, say (11)
- Originally Kenyan engineers deftly designed a handy enclosure for wild elephants (6)
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