Cryptic crossword No 2,923
Fri 5 Dec 2025, set byPatanoia
Special Instructions: This is my first crossword here - feedback welcome! EDIT: My apologies - the answer to 20a is misspelled (thank you, Gennaro) so I'm proving the incorrect answer that should be entered: Neemi. (Can't believe I've been getting Neeme Jarvi's name wrong all this time.)
Across
- Settling a civic argument: "Go around!" (14)
- Water feature fellow removed for debut of Maxine Peak (8)
- Familiar conductor taking part in matinee "Mikado" (5)
- A CEO put out: "Go faster!" (7)
- Tow Tesla to Essex with return to Plymouth, perhaps (8)
- Back to square one as a result of bum steer (5)
- Adam grips fashion models (9)
- Pointless pursuit e.g. showed social disorder (4,5,5)
- Age about 51, beginning to crumble (5)
- General on heroin loses his head, takes in novice streetwalker (7)
- Workers after cuts, with voices raised, possibly (7)
- So-and-so's Second Amendment issue? (3,2,1,3)
- Expired baps with crusts removed, else sandwiches get wilted bottom (7)
- A little Caesar returns back to Earth (5)
Down
- Arrange a kind of American (5)
- Cry for help: went Number One inside briefs (7)
- Saw, heard, mentioned (5)
- Privateer cunningly ransacked centres of Spaniards, redefined America (7,5)
- Police go around bashing heads (7)
- Exposed arc weld, city set on fire again (5)
- Originally, Germanic outlaws, then "Hallowe'en Siouxsies" (5)
- Plain Irene gets fixed up (9)
- Hear a record that sounds like the witches' scene in the Scottish play? (9)
- "Virgin" wasn't a hit? (9)
- Perhaps Sarah Ferguson finally, after short review, "I hate that introduction from Andrew" (7)
- Unbelievable soft drink - it's terribly cold! (9)
- River, tor, church, restricted area, gap could be part of his work (12)
- Song and Arias in the book in OT (7)
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