Cryptic crossword No 2,914
Tue 2 Dec 2025, set byGollum
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Special Instructions: We haven't had one about the Leader of the Free World lately...
Across
- Making good routine - tits massaged ... (11)
- Bingo call: "Are you 4?" (6)
- Damp suit more crumpled (8)
- Dangerous gas bag, Zelenskyy's enemy (Putin's poodle) enjoying life insulting NATO's leaders (8)
- Flowery speech - "Down with Gore!" (6)
- Signed without a repeated description of Donald J Trump (8)
- Firstly, ensure judges' edicts concerning Trump are what is thrown out (6)
- Posh fast food here? This is IT! (8)
- ...ignore disputed area (6)
- Perhaps a maiden with short hair to harvest too much (8)
- Repressed member is not put back (4-2)
- President's detaining an alien - makes a noise! (8)
- Marjorie Taylor sounds envious (6)
Down
- Dishes Spooner's marsupial adolescence (7)
- "We try to avoid using this high explosive" - record policy (8)
- Commonly most fragrant, "Fife's Nit Mixture" (8)
- Appalling desolation, losing bombed land, serving no useful purpose (6)
- In Zagreb, read the compass (7)
- They make land safe where explosive meets doctrine (4,9)
- Composition, one in syncopated tempo (4,4)
- Geological period when Trump's men roamed the streets? (3,3)
- Once more, study a mad king in a small space after the 6th of January (7)
- Mango lobbyist returns home to Italian city (7)
- Eventually intimate less abhorrent surroundings (2,4)
- Little bird (snipe) - cut off anything dangling (6)
- Hammers in your ears (8)
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