Cryptic crossword No 2,969
Mon 22 Dec 2025, set byAvid
Special Instructions: This appeared in Rookie Corner on BigDave44 last week, but publishing here as well so more can enjoy it (hopefully).
Across
- A point that's relevant (3)
- Addition of (essentially) ten + ten + ten + ten + ten + (finally) ten (9)
- Artist drinking bit of pint and spilling the rest in study (5)
- Performers are spinning about in orbs outdoors (10)
- So poorly detailed (3)
- Futility of parsimony, pinching singles putting opener at the wrong end (15)
- Brutal critique of Shakespeare? (2,2,5)
- Something emerging one thousand years after plea quietly ignored (7)
- Super active kitty (5)
- Old chestnuts from top of compiler’s cryptic shortlist including “revolutionary” (7)
- Sexist regularly airing loathsome, nasty rot (10)
- Refusal to serve by GI using a bit of Latino candour (2,3,2)
- Awe inspiring Rolls-Royce - one desirable automobile! (7)
Down
- Long line after end of film advanced (8,6)
- A pound: something charged in Britain (6)
- Lack of coherence in press about criminal cases of extortion and conspiracy (13)
- Republican President of the United States knocked out in coma (6)
- Ability to endure lone pursuit (8)
- A halfpipe is my freestyle game (5,8)
- Scene of carnage as violence arises following a strike (8)
- Dish one served up in Scottish town, following starter of broth (7)
- Best jail, it’s said, for an easy time (6)
- Steal someone's dog for a bit (7)
- Dissent in this place is ultimately deadly (6)
- Wet and snowy outside - message boyfriend, "I need Prince Charming!" (8,6)
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