Cryptic crossword No 2,911
Tue 2 Dec 2025, set bybuddy
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Across
- Delve into first-rate book (5)
- Riff-raff mostly inferior to gentleman leading clever society (12)
- Without being protected by patent, wound up in financial straits (12)
- Fairy tale about capturing Norse god (3)
- Frame paintings I select and organize, right to left (10)
- Submissiveness - once in the sack, that is? Just the opposite! (9)
- Bake brown bread when time is right (5)
- Rent covered by paid content (7)
- The man's gripped by lechery most rank (7)
- Film of man caught in piece of armour (4,2,4)
- Australian with new beard (3)
- An American cycling track provides help to the French (2,7)
- Rogue oligarchs rejecting one government expert (7)
- Translator keeps Kindle in pocket (7)
Down
- Model readily stripped and posed (5)
- Issues finest selections for the audience (6)
- Distrust American detective involved in graft (9)
- Make like a bird and take off! (4,2)
- Imprisoned by tyrant, I escape bonds (4)
- Crowned King of Norway locked in the den mistakenly (9)
- Visual comic lacking introduction (6)
- Praiseworthy, adept fellow accepting University first (8)
- Brazilian bread with taste of mango preserve (5)
- Precipitation outbreak on cape (8)
- Beginning to pile abuse on corrupt journalist called to appear in court (10)
- Precautions tested before getting into psychedelic drugs (10)
- Restore polluted River Tees almost entirely (8)
- Cope with grating cough (4)
- Reversed irrational decline in price (6)
- Fawn starts to scamper over foothills, then stops on arid plateau (4-4)
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