Cryptic crossword No 2,917
Wed 3 Dec 2025, set byPeterbob
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Across
- Waste authority assumes we brought about! (6)
- No time for woebegone to get a reprimand (6)
- Provoke to pay head down following a deliberate fabrication (8)
- Agreeing bit of yoghurt that is left no good, after one suppresses hint of doubt (8)
- Mortify friend losing about half of gamble (6)
- Bore inhabits mainly gloomy residence (8)
- Donkey is taken in by your outdated belief (6)
- Let us confer about lighting method (11)
- Ability to outdo a place like Manchester, say? (8)
- Ingenious sycophant, losing power, charged with overturning life in ancient Rome (8)
- Originally profligate, elderly shoppers extremely tight about money (6)
- Disguise foreboding, preferring idleness to exercise going into work (6)
- Motor needs internally-fixed measuring device (8)
Down
- Diminutive man hauled up following prison escape at last (8)
- Shortened address introducing alternative musical form (8)
- Harmless to await climbing flanks of ledge (6)
- Impressive art venue hidden by cunning (7)
- Re-examined some inward erosion from below (7)
- Abandoned disco and met daily (8)
- Package leaking contents at first, including all correspondence (8)
- International transaction to simulate previous fluctuation hedging gold (7,8)
- Old bankers here in Saint-Tropez alongside inland sea (6)
- Exact origin of quarrel? University is initially surrounded by groups of armed men (7)
- Heavens above! Male sheep floundering in river (4,2)
- Nomadic tribe that is shortly bound to be dispersed (7)
- Trouble for glutton gulping leftovers at first before start of high tea announced (6)
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