Cryptic crossword No 2,824
Wed 5 Nov 2025, set bySpuggy
Special Instructions: If 14a is unclear, trying reading closer (or see the comments for an alternative)
Across
- Store of food costing nothing (almost nothing) (7)
- Finds out about bathroom weeping (2,6)
- Family finally replaces its leader in farmland and produces fruit (6)
- Not crossing square ringed by walkway is more direct (8)
- It's often a big plush animal mother's placed next to baby's bed (6)
- What marks treasure trove, scattered first in circulation (6)
- Made bond investment managers outspoken (what PM Liz did, you might say?) (7)
- Rivals in Milan have time to meet (8)
- Show or hide (6)
- Keep this up as alternative to football, be a basketball league gangsta (7)
- Male birds heard another bird eating one boater (8)
- ×x×x in New York? (5,6)
- All About Eve sequel's premiere gets over-18 certificates (1-6)
Down
- Artist's implement is quietly a tool of Banksy - not good man (6)
- Chihuahua's here - come around about 11 (6)
- Artistic xxxx-ing: three seconds time with one in groin? (5-6)
- Added to 2×(2.718 + 500), divided by (10+10) (8)
- Ending of inappropriate provocative commercial totally upset babysitter (7)
- A passionate statement of evolutionary flourishing, not unhinged rant (1,4,3)
- Covertly catch Valentine topless and his icon bottomless (8)
- Some letters in journal read yesterday or earlier (7)
- Grow in line on field (8)
- Copy has oddly-printed small cover from the copier (7)
- Large but dingy interiors being disagreeable (7)
- What 24 manages, or 1 (6)
- Clothing one is wearing heads for the runway (6)
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