Cryptic crossword No 2,878
Sat 22 Nov 2025, set byanon_cues
Special Instructions: Private Eye/Cyclops-inspired themed cryptic
Across
- Coppers? No big deal (5)
- Certifies RAF souses to fly (7,2)
- One-time leading trio spotted in back garden, peddling first couple of bins (5)
- Decomposing dinosaurs running the country (3)
- Elon attains riches never seen from the outset? (5)
- In some measure, addressed injustices (3)
- Given nudge, chief of attorneys, Ted Cruz, casually pockets sweepstake (7)
- Rabble-rousing MP orates, without initial script, for well-paid company (3-4)
- Victory follows hairless fake president on Saturdays (7)
- Dilapidated Boris Johnson (briefly) does international moonlighting (4,3)
- Perverted rotten spite wrapped in heartless exploitation (7)
- Batshit Axl Rose skips Sweden to enjoy year among riffraff (2-5)
- Gave the nod for LSD with ale and gin on the rocks (9)
- Orange gas, is potent? (5)
- Swelling body part makes sitting difficult? Slackens freely if drugs snorted earlier are flushed out (5)
- See 16d
Down
- Shave ancient crack? (4)
- American issue quotes Danish prince's ex (4,2,2)
- Disgraced one caught cleansing with water and religion in empty peepshow (6,6)
- Account info – possibly fake (4)
- Taking mad leap, Associated Press hack defied orders (8)
- Hushed, regularly, as at four a.m. by a drawn tide – bliss (6,7)
- Applying fake tan daily, perhaps to slow first signs of ugly aging likeness (6)
- Jerk-off starring in top-rated horse opera (4)
- See 3d
- See 16d
- Number ringer on phone with pulses, prying no end–wanted, never apprehended? (5,5,5)
- Babe refusing first lesbian twosome after present film (3,5)
- Fourth of July: with Trump essentially heading for jail, folly spreads with glee (8)
- Holy man's writing is filthy (6)
- Experts given third degree (4)
- Pile in by one, smash queen's ring, topless, steal a quid, ditch the Bill (13)
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