Cryptic crossword No 2,869
Wed 19 Nov 2025, set byyogdaws
Special Instructions: Wordplay in all clues omits either one or two thematic letters; enumerations indicate the full entry length. In clue order, the omitted letters suggest the start of a sequence made famous by the single unclued entry (the enumeration for which is left deliberately inaccurate).
Across
- Summat wrong abaht device’s bottom? This should help its movement (8)
- Bit of money put in a prisoner’s donation box (4,3)
- Some stuffed ornamental hats (7)
- Watch today’s top film (5)
- Washington goes back some (1,3)
- Birds from South America, heading west (4)
- Flatten a bit (5)
- I must regularly delete letters to get data (5)
- Soft mineral, occasionally sticky, but not initially yellow (4)
- Scottish projection is out of print (4)
- He supplies boats with tea on the French Riviera, primarily (8)
- Liquid down, at a marker ultimately? This determines how far (7,3)
- …(PS – it’s not quite a former country, but it is a former state) (7)
- Papers following bizarre ‘ultra sandwiches’ I made into a tradition (10)
- Airline has this destination… (7)
Down
- Leaning over the edge, briefly, on top of tower (5)
- Dry up for Gandhi (6)
- Evaded hit yet knocked down (8)
- Bone from top of arm found under hollowed-out lawn (4)
- Turning ‘X + Y’ into overall income (3,3)
- Medium, below the empty stage, gets a message (8)
- Old? Time to retire! (4)
- Beginner missing Diamonds? (6)
- Ante up in Adama, Ethiopia (6)
- Mentally prepare for year in school in P-Peru's capital (6,2)
- Extremely sensual hot shower (5)
- Add to church (4)
- See special instructions (9)
- Crab, perhaps, without salmon starter? Cheers! (8)
- Jelly set in bars (4)
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