Cryptic crossword No 2,913
Tue 2 Dec 2025, set byChameleon
Special Instructions: The first cryptic I ever published online (in March 2019, on the 1 Across forum)
Across
- Superheroes kiss and make up endlessly (1-3)
- Sharper relic gets crack when moved (8)
- Facial coverings initially taken for hot flavours (6)
- Rebellious teen takes over second party (5)
- Spun out some wordplay (4)
- Ask for money from revolutionary touring his birthplace (6)
- First bit of dirt in ancient 32 is dished out piece by piece (8)
- Fall apart near table (2,2,3)
- Army fellow's dangerous op with scout (7)
- Musical group of between 8 and 9 (6)
- Rent term exposed on the record for auditor (8)
- Way of throwing up beneath branch (8)
- Tears apart beginning of Kevin Bacon line? (6)
- Vicar swaps sides in front of one figure from the Torah (4)
- Mined abandoned material of 30 (5)
- Work of Prince or even Madness, to take some left-field figures (4)
Down
- Icon, say, in advance (6)
- It's painful to move when beheaded (4)
- Early alcohol session in petrol station will get you buzzing (8)
- Suspect on board showboat (7)
- Is its sex lively? (6)
- Coward turned away from me in the end (4)
- Alan loses his head in lofty surroundings, the home of the Canaries (8)
- Post on social media - where I follow myself (4)
- Sit around reading novels (5)
- Euro due to climb when Leave leader's imprisoned? Get away! (5)
- "Toward us?" "Other way!" (8)
- Like a date several months later? (8)
- Sunbathe sisters holding the paper (6)
- US street that might open doors (6)
- Experts in their field regularly remove pancreas (4)
- I, for example, upset Chameleon from 4-7 then have another go at 10 (7)
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