Cryptic crossword No 2,976
Tue 23 Dec 2025, set bySwanseaJack
Special Instructions: There's a few clues linked to a theme but I don't think there's enough for it to qualify as a theme.
Across
- Subject holding focus of cartographers is one of a pair of parallel lines? (6)
- Soup, sesame prawn starters and a bit of hot & sour soup provide essential element for health (10)
- Exposing bionic crime by a bit of gamesmanship is exciting (8)
- Singing sex symbol? Flipping ride her, baby! (6,5)
- Request that follows sex when you have it? (6)
- Musicians represented in Beethoven's emblem (8)
- Tag giraffe that's lost and waiting at the centre (8)
- Spin sample of Lil Ella rapping describing sleigh tracks in the snow (8)
- Sweet sounding girl in song by 15a (6)
- Playing AND working (6)
- Leading character on screen, television and radio?! (4)
- Bandits' leader mounts filly and holds up a train? (10)
- Horse harness spun around apprentice's head (4)
Down
- Reps reform cast, making musicians maybe? (10)
- List Romans' terrible misdemeanours (6,4)
- Get away with Versace samples every second (6)
- "Ugly haircut!" could be heard from the bell tower (5,3)
- Heads around Ireland for Whiskey and Banshees (7)
- The sure thing (8,7)
- Dish out mulled wine perhaps including a nip of absinthe for Twelfth Night? (4)
- Verbally abuse and badly cheek about middle of trilogy (6)
- Extra in Manchester secures Tom Cruise movie (4,3)
- Rumour our lad is German pyromaniac (8)
- Up tempo cast (4)
- Spy captures student that's with a group behind "Atomic" release (7)
- Hot air from those people protecting Republican and American Liberal (7)
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