Cryptic crossword No 2,840
Tue 11 Nov 2025, set byGumboot
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Special Instructions: Theme spoilers in notes for 25D
Across
- Vicar's habit to keep calm and carry on (4)
- Lyric about the Italian in casual shoes (you'll see them in a while) (10)
- Predestination fan wants Grease on a register (8)
- Reject everything in day one broadcast (8)
- Hasten labour to speed of light in home - outstanding (6)
- Harsh cry, sound made by hounds about right? (4)
- Old spouses recall date, cuddling, kiss (4)
- Help at Christmas, sister included (6)
- Examined by prodding carelessly at apple density (8)
- Inadequate experience swallowing one vitamin then another (6)
- Torte made for wet carnivore (5)
- Setter's back and takes two seconds to get a cocktail (6)
- Hot sauce? It bores spy (4)
- Brought back little sleep in summer for endangered creature (3,5)
- Individual depleted but innately hard cracks on (10)
Down
- Bolt turns up to run (4)
- Dearer going round Tesco IRL (8)
- Draw badly (small infants do this) (6)
- Harry loaned me Beyoncé album (8)
- Admitted to boss I'd led coup, made sideways move (6)
- Spelling contests where letters are heard (4)
- Flamboyant lighting worker hugged by Imrie leaving a TV show (10)
- Choose voice to conceal cold mood (8)
- Mischievous two about, fairly quiet then quiet (6)
- Sacked journalist after a vote (4)
- I riot badly, getting caught and put inside - loss unusual for legal advisors (10)
- Wet garden on Devon river rising (5)
- Jewellery made from Gold Cup, say, lost in wager (8)
- Magician gets storm in a teacup to end early: "stop exploding!" (6)
- Arrow - (4)
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