Cryptic crossword No 2,874
Fri 21 Nov 2025, set byHasslethymi
Special Instructions: Published in 7 Directory, Preston Pages and West of the Clee magazines, plus www.stokestmilborough.info (February 2026)
Across
- Male TV rival destroyed a little piece of your heart (6,5)
- See 11a
- Camp bed placed next to Great Lake (7)
- Pays my rent, making regular losses up until now (2,3)
- Similar to relish (4)
- Charge a levy for one means of transport (4)
- Frank, heed firstly these swell lines describing a life-saving operation (4,5,7) (4,12)
- Musk possesses this amount of magnetic field strength (5)
- How most of us are informed of church service methodologies (4,5)
- Roger tucks into chopped herbs for antelopes (7)
- Everyone clutches chasers of cognac too harsh to drink (7)
- Maybe he's Cain? (5,6)
- Interfering in reported prize total (10)
- Little boy, for example, needing minute with mine (6,4)
Down
- European capital gets into baked pasta (8)
- Mother's savvy - there's the rub! (7)
- Phlegm brought up with endless fuss (5)
- Thinly set clay manufactured using man-made processes (13)
- Lost opening segments of Bad Education movie getting recycled (7)
- The classroom's degenerated according to many of these (13)
- Majority accepting the berk's own weirdly maternal warning (6,5,4)
- Light components of cabinet or chair (5)
- Brilliant gallery displaying artificial fibre (7)
- Take a seat in terrible dive and get patronised (7)
- Wearing a mask in quirky travel ad (8)
- Sometimes all at once as well as afterwards (5,3,3,4)
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