Cryptic crossword No 2,895
Thu 27 Nov 2025, set byPanthera
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Across
- Take a breath and put another top on? (7)
- Online discussion groups providing advice for anglers, lepidopterists etc.? (6)
- Prosthesis that feels uncomfortable finally gets adjusted (5,5)
- Leader that'll keep you in line? (5)
- An extremely experimental Australian act's reassembled collection of choice excerpts (8)
- Account for Supernatural fans stops replying to right-winger? (5,5)
- He might fix a violin from Italy, owned by fictional detective (7)
- Fancy hanging round hotel after absolute disaster on the slopes? (9)
- Bird that's said to tamper with eggs (6)
- Doctor, that is bordering on excessive - he was ever so pale! (5,2,1,5)
- Every now and then, picky masochist struggles to comprehend love without a physical connection? (13)
- Stale urine allegedly makes these emit light (8)
- Bunko and rannygazoo cleared out baron (3)
- Sticky substance that coats dirty sailor (3)
Down
- Practise embracing your energy unconditionally (6)
- No movement from people after raucous party (10)
- Common figures in playground fights (10)
- "That boy needs therapy" essentially comes up in this context? (4)
- In short, you left with a girl named Violet? (7)
- Smack cowboy's friend with benefits? (5)
- Sample taken from wartime album for collation, perhaps (4)
- All the bad stuff you've been caught doing online! (6)
- Colin? He runs a lab, right? (6)
- To lie down on the couch, drop, then change your initial direction by 90°? (7)
- There'll be no disputing which is which! (5,4)
- Yoga position circling back to butt's largely miserable (5)
- Young men from Florence convey meaning via gestures instead of internet neologisms and idioms, primarily (9)
- Head of Universal stops, business continues below (7)
- Horny male set eyes on tool (7)
- Copycat set up to take blame (6)
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