Cryptic crossword No 2,963
Sat 20 Dec 2025, set byTug
9
Across
- Jimmy runs swiftly, evacuated by small team using up a fire extinguisher (9,6)
- Steady ice? He's mistaken in forecasts (10)
- That man's at a loss for cure (4)
- Bravo — peacekeepers untangle base nonsense (8)
- Digital trace used to access contacts in cell? (10)
- Albert and Mother in German dance (6)
- I died, decapitated, hit with a stick in dogged race? (8)
- Automobile nearly crashed around noon in dangerous situation (3,2,1,4)
- Daughter blocks Uno Reverse (4)
- Loud song is all right (4)
- Velocity close, touching speed of sound... losing oxygen for the first and second fuel storage units? (7,8)
- Part of STEM program is too hard at start (4)
- Soon thrown back against tops of extremely strong ropes (6)
- Scholar et al in university housing taken aback by one party (10)
Down
- Private detective's book exposed unnoticeable criminal (6,5)
- Resident priest, a dear but barely top-grade, left conservative upper-class charge (9,6)
- Drive train under one metre with power (5)
- Gourmet eatery at the forefront still when centrepiece is thrown out (7)
- Funny American upset society (3)
- Star's boom mike erased from total pan over ground (9)
- Charlie managed to retain love and shouted (9)
- Metal instrumental rearranged into dramatic intro under musical's openings (7)
- Anger thus regularly appearing after being raised in developmental chambers (5)
- Coffeepot in boil, neither cold nor hot? (3)
- Need to take a leak? Nip out over to men's room (11)
- International agreement in French shelter right to be off record — one ambassador initially fled after discovery? (7,8)
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