Cryptic crossword No 2,828
Thu 6 Nov 2025, set byFez
Special Instructions: A puzzle by Blancheflower
Across
- Joined police (3)
- Mexican food you shouldn't have to cook, oddly (4)
- Spellbound daughter: I've teddy bears! (7)
- Relaxing on vacation, somewhere with palm trees (6)
- Extreme sport enthusiast making kids very excited (8)
- Edit communist newspaper containing provocateur's right-wing article (7)
- Coming from Inishmore, perhaps a little paranoid? (4)
- It ... it turns white! (4)
- Beloved French singer (4)
- Runner beans, leek and broccoli at last (3)
- Good boots to wear in London Marathon (4)
- Aussie icon Kylie's first disc featuring a theatrical organ (8)
- Farage regularly perceived to possess face of one? (4)
- Essentially, parents given last word about medical procedure (5)
- Strike back against American soldier (4)
- Chuck luggage in rear, finally secure ... with this? (6)
- Spell check headings to avoid ridiculous mistakes (5)
- Flipping hard to leave, originally reluctant (4)
Down
- By way of 6a (3)
- Maybe Grayson Perry's wife purchases house in Dallas? (2,4)
- Immoral support? (4)
- Fireman cross over short annual holiday (4)
- Decorator ultimately feeling funny about extremely rare shade (5,5)
- Still believe, at heart, in mythical creature (4)
- Fashionable brother introduces father to Google (4)
- Gunman occasionally weak with worry (4)
- Top Geordie comprehensive reportedly, pet (10)
- Made out boats' bows (4)
- Preposterous part for Kate Winslet: Grasshopper (4)
- Renowned sporting body overseeing sumo wrestling (6)
- Coffee-maker's broken โ free tea and cookies instead, initially (9)
- Shaved brownish-orange beard (3)
- Plug for mobile phone's core component (5)
- Insect to get away, escaping from trap (4)
- Actor familiarly appearing in shimmery lingerie (5)
- More hazy or washed out, one assumes (9)
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