Cryptic crossword No 2,893
Wed 26 Nov 2025, set byMethuselah
Special Instructions: Originally appeared in the Independent 14/12/23. Republished with kind permission.
Across
- Flâneur openly taking in his surroundings, presumably (6)
- New recruits mostly speak without thinking to begin with (8)
- Recordings of United overwhelmed by Barcelona's cheers (6)
- Reptile in trap to wriggle round here after shedding skin (8)
- Crew have to abandon second ship (5)
- Shoots, flowers, evergreen, peace at last (5,4)
- Parrot not quite as dead as a dodo? (7)
- Try to find someone faithful using phone (4)
- Throw out swimmer moving back to front (7)
- Dreadful private school grad with debts stuck outside No 10 (9)
- Letter from Rolling Stone clutched by woman now and then (5)
- Network when in lofty surroundings - might an icebreaker be useful there? (8)
- Just about out of debt, with a few coins (6)
- Sending water away, ordered red again or a dear gin? (8)
- Inscrutable setter's met with a lot of criticism (6)
- Olympians possibly left out of medals (4)
Down
- See 21
- Cases of old politician popping into drinks (8)
- Comes through or, alternatively, is routed (5,3)
- Battering ram opened front (9)
- Exaggerate somewhat, in more ways than one (4-3)
- Republican instead of Democrat returned – fix! (6)
- It's seventy feet but only one metre (6)
- A flat for one some singleton's flipped (4)
- Amateur match official wearing protective gear or not (8)
- Perhaps it means, roughly, about meaning (8)
- Wise man wrapping present (7)
- Trouble with flies? A&E fixed up nether region (4,6)
- Playwright crouched down to audience (6)
- Element of social media site nobody backed (5)
- Upwardly mobile clergyman going to a load of balls in Pride and Prejudice? (5)
- Insect to go slowly and then go quickly (9)
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