Cryptic crossword No 2,817
Sat 1 Nov 2025, set byIlinx
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Across
- Location with many shops, a thousand on each side (4)
- Brief lessons in sin: naughty ginger rousing powerful emotions (10)
- Artificial content of bangers at Zédel (6)
- Ilinx is overly devoted to unfinished lower city. (8)
- Composer, fashionable one following one who follows old gods (8)
- Youthful expression expressing “throw”, primarily. (4)
- Geological theory, in which clay sat so simply, returning (8)
- Available, as fingers are (2,4)
- No mode in chemins de fer for remodelled side (6,5)
- Powerless aviator's assistant has cloth cap and even beard (10)
- Universal solvent, in for a cold season (6)
- One in closing round is last and first (8)
- Actor Florence accepts Leonardo emptied out till (6)
Down
- 20’s metaphor for work has books rising above commercial (4)
- Be beaten in courts and cupboards (7)
- Soothing ocean (7)
- Dark in an outhouse, with 20% of six semitones (10,5)
- Bundle of rope, top to bottom, is symbol of life (4)
- Concerning agent that follows jumper: put new top on (8)
- Movement poet’s god of hearth and family (6)
- Cuts 100 pages (7)
- Powerful Chinese dynasty absorbs traveller on vacation (6)
- Ingredient found in tonic, in harlequin, in entertainer (7)
- Earth moves around hesitation? It should move, primarily, for joint condition (10)
- Broken axe put in neutral disrupted part of Requiem (3,7)
- Capture knight with hard chess opening - in retrospect, give name (8)
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