Cryptic crossword No 2,939
Fri 12 Dec 2025, set byMedian
Special Instructions: One for fans of 'the beautiful game'
Across
- Governor of many here has dance guarded by two measures (8,6)
- Walk round US 14 or 6, say (6)
- Complain about flan spoilt in shower (8)
- Some website chief? Probably (6)
- Place of safety as truancy erupts (9)
- Regularly agreeing a place for sports events (5)
- Wells for one returned analytical sample (4)
- Accidentally sewed in with last bit at the front (7)
- Crackpot's racket next to German club (7)
- Hear wind instrument in study (4)
- Best and worst (5)
- Rolling Stones may call Bolton home (9)
- Limitless adaptation of legendary knitting pattern (6)
- Customer in Guernsey stuffing cake (8)
- Fail to apply for revolutionary online terminal (6)
- Line on chart is different after initial modification (8)
Down
- Woody region in favour of superlative marker (6)
- Nothing in maths and French that begins to bring one up to speed (6)
- Suit advice from simplistic trainer? (5)
- Quiet infant doesn't start to drop off with this? On the contrary. (7)
- Old princess, single, goes missing from Egyptian 14 (9)
- See 1 Across
- Helper regularly going into top room is good at sport (8)
- Raised the Spanish girl on about nine abandoned bases (8)
- Music maker who can't be trusted in discussion (4)
- Stoic characters leaving microbiologist unexpectedly cause confusion (9)
- Defender discovered Lady Avon scam before the case (8)
- Where to find trapdoors serially? (2,6)
- Nowt moves in Fleetwood, for example (4)
- King winds up park officers (7)
- Respect side said to have two points over (6)
- Be leader no more? (5)
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