Cryptic crossword No 2,900
Sat 29 Nov 2025, set byRough
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Across
- Cavalier toppled one off steed (6-5)
- His job is on the line (7)
- ‘City of Angels’ last drawn before sinking into water (7)
- Baby discovered given name before morning out (7)
- Clay once cut up in return for dish of rice (5)
- Dwelling on way to make a diversion for drivers (9)
- Representive of the school of hard knocks: yob with shaved head (7)
- Damn! I misused newly grasped loan-word that modifies a name (9)
- It's rude to throw his cape around and about (8)
- Farmer’s final greeting on reared animal (5)
- Absorb impact of Maestro I pranged (8)
- Fissile shale belt (5)
- Set to perform Daddy Cool for her after sundown (5)
Down
- Reverse osmosis cycle I ran from lab environment flourishes outdoors (8)
- Dog a cat can see precisely (10)
- A bamboo core keeps uneven pillow’s balance (6)
- English lake reflecting low shadow (7)
- Winona alluding to Little Women, “Trini was middling, dry” (3-7)
- Quiet mouse, tense inside, starved of oxygen and beginning to swoon (4)
- In case of gash left by itself a use for alcohol? (8)
- Initially fobbed off, gets stamps (6)
- Has woke sport become square? (5)
- Showered with hair left up in front of date (5)
- Solves a maths problem in tight pants? (6)
- Closest daughter faces French and harbours Greek warrior (7)
- Clubs concealed by a presentable card sharp (4)
- Decline in meat supply after terminations of highland cattle (8)
- “Shut up!” Juvenile rejects a ‘tête-à-tête’ (6)
- Woman, your drab flab takes over, be up for a winter stretch (8)
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