Cryptic crossword No 2,986
Fri 26 Dec 2025, set byInvicta
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Across
- Seeing a touch of levity. Not quite! (6)
- Charged too much, perhaps. Get stuffed! (8)
- After digesting, Astrid given the bill (11)
- Material for prosecution by German central banker (8)
- Very tender? (4)
- Re-engineer papers (6)
- Under pressure, but they won't be serving beer by the litre here! (10)
- I am shortly, I'm sorry to say, back to be cured (6)
- Nude MP Mole rejected as title for Le Carre (3,2,5)
- Uplifted solver back in base (6)
- Spanish King goes around Mediterranean to find a balm (6)
- Remain in church for Reformation (6)
- Cold mutton? Stuff it! (4)
Down
- Make fair adjustment back at the end of the day (8)
- Alexandra is a best friend (6)
- European Medicines Agency leading dictionary of swellings (6)
- Dressed yard with revolutionary surface (6)
- Night owl Al goes East for the after dark scene (8)
- Cheeky head describing Lorenz theory (8)
- Accomodation for students: first room on the right. (11)
- Horrified by taking off cloak inside (8)
- Golf in an African country is most agreeable (6)
- Paris landmark, by all accounts (6)
- Who said: "Things can only get better"? Year? It's unclear (6)
- Looked hard to find the best newspaper boss (6)
- Big cat sighted, we hear, in the West Midlands (6)
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