Cryptic crossword No 2,872
Wed 19 Nov 2025, set bySwanseaJack
Special Instructions: 15a has a connection to a number of titles hidden in the grid
Across
- Spike: Pointless jouster's weapon (4)
- Be ill in the early afternoon returning to what Venetians call home (6)
- Dance move with future bride in front of family before midnight brings creator of horror (7,4)
- Christens celebrities and sings (5,5)
- Siestas intermittently with Italian beauty and Spanish queen (8)
- Almost help Italian to birthplace of a flock's preacher (6)
- Cunningly entraps copyright infringement platform (7)
- Future prospects don't admit having chlamydia? (7)
- Tie up and lightly hit all round with bar (7)
- Celebration with perhaps apple pie? (4)
- Seen as fake, torn into pieces (5,3)
- What one wears for evening shifts? (5,5)
- Typical in Camarthen or Monmouthshire (3,4)
Down
- Some overhear Big Bird (4)
- Woos Nina, flustered and fainting (2,1,5)
- Pressing Del and working carefully around Rodney's lead (7)
- Ageism might cut actress from period drama? (6,5)
- Superhero with even itchier skin after he finally succumbed to trace of allergen (3,5)
- Bill's current number (7)
- Russian revolutionary not in with weapons manufacturer after international body (Spain, Malta and Italy) withdrew for the duration (6)
- Flat, strange hat I donned for Asian dish (3,4)
- Genuflects and almost drinks alcohol outside empty nave (5,1,4)
- Family pet hiding behind bucket or bench perhaps (3,4)
- Religious leader (not bishop) taken in by support group in Middle Eastern area (6)
- Gill in porn mix-up with baking utensil (7,3)
- Dates anglers now and again (4)
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