Cryptic crossword No 2,929
Sun 7 Dec 2025, set bySpuggy
Special Instructions: The perimeter contains a message about organ donation that some people would rather not hear
Across
- Callback interrupted by idiot's tip - a blooming thing! (5)
- Went astride horses and cows regularly here! (6)
- He spoils good Jedi, even characters only for e.g. The Phantom Menace (7,1)
- French cheese... not French but Hungarian tribute (6)
- Fleeced female taken in by flipping Amazon, for instance - one star rating? (8)
- Commando lingering around plaything of literary captain (8)
- Kink and kink - kinky, no? (4-2)
- Sesame Street makes children sing - and within seconds (6)
- Unfinished poetry written about pained lament in valuable papers (8)
- Nosy beast's struggle putting on "Cockney Dracula" accent?! (8)
- Is perverse dealer outside concert? Stay home (3,3)
- Tall, smoking hot Sicilian is part-Vietnamese (4)
- Confused vet yet to discover woman's name (6)
- Football club briefly reponsible for the perimeter (4)
- Apples pureed with it to make soup base (5,3)
Down
- Waugh has his bottom lifted in a regular way (6)
- Fuss on the agenda (2-2)
- Vessel in sound that turns with the wind (4)
- Father for children adopted by state to replace departed citizens (10)
- Robin, perhaps wolf prey's a little red one of these? (4)
- Specifically heard 'to woo' partner for hooters? (2,3)
- Colours in the rainbow unlike simple primaries - orange, for one (6)
- Before five of us got into horse, it's not black and white (6,2)
- Amateurish novices training inexperienced initiates are not pro (4)
- Judge changing hands? It's tempting (4)
- Small, now big - everything to get larger and larger (8)
- Eye-watering injury (4)
- Doctor: "I'm open for questions online to reveal what happens in theatre" (5)
- Developing ova in a uterus - identical siblings' conceptions overlooked, modern style (3,7)
- They fire loose links (5)
- This can separate two hectares? (2-2)
- Played metal instruments and 90s rock music, no covers (4)
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