Jumbo crossword No 18
Mon 8 Sep 2025, set byBluejacket
Special Instructions: In celebration of my blog's 300th grid! :)
Across
- Let Etonian off, admitting row is philosophical (3-12)
- One-armed bandits here, a thousand good men and Jack Cade (9,6)
- African emperor cut off our group (7)
- Evangelists love spreading private studies (7)
- Tudor ass in tunic recast Shakespeare play (5,10)
- Rhine ship checking lead-free liverwort for fluvial suitability (15)
- Does ice start to hinder his foreign, nomadic trawler work? (8,7)
- Runs through tennis format with buff dads, giving unfair rules (6,9)
- Yes, game being lost is great viewing experience (7)
- Shilling rubbish, realises policy causes unwillingness to buy (5,10)
- Polish area, scrubbing its light enamel surface in acetone, primarily (7)
- A starter of mud bass, pink chars and ide, in general with mutton-chops (7,8)
- Loud changes to shield, cycling out shell and bomb defences (7,8)
- Smart to bookend Kipling poem using riddle? (7)
- Hit the roof after circling helipad on Greek N. Sardinian tower (7)
- Current vote to admit member is not yet decided (2,5)
- Born with free ride, having less money? (7)
- Act as divine inspiration for puzzles (7)
- Algonquian spirit inhabiting shaman I touted (7)
- Monuments I found in best hectare by trees (9,6)
- Ministry of Defence traitor's lying about celebrity (7)
- Chemical property of agent (copper with argon) we bathed in light (9,6)
- Name of German wolf, Gaelic cuckoo and EU-backed trade union (9,6)
- Playwright's Roman man exits, pursued by bear (7)
Down
- Coastal region's pine is large and sturdy (4,6,5)
- Work by Cambridge mathematicians (7)
- Holland city radio operator secures tax relief regularly (7)
- Fashionably green choc-ice ordered (3-4)
- Head of Emmanuel College to force odd priest back from Austria's Balkan province (6,2,7)
- Second half of Helsinkian girl's last poem inspires tons by cool author (4,11)
- Tough bravo knocks out first of cops in police car (7)
- Island port's day guards ultimately reinforce government authority (7,2,6)
- Quiet indignation after ousting People's Party (7)
- Development of person's gametes, involving testicles centrally (15)
- Violin from Norway trying to make mad racket (9,6)
- Walks through code while installing source from library (15)
- Fed's casing ER, getting in with mob's beastly guards (6,9)
- AI assistant turned on new incognito biometrics (4,11)
- Scavenger's opposing civilisation, taking out leader (7)
- Over-cooked soup's meat primarily marsupial (7)
- Internal membranes with sores brought up at A&E (7)
- Admire being lean when bored by muscle (7)
- These carry disease of spinning arachnids (7)
- Ex-PM accepting pardon? Poorly rate Eden's loyalty (4-11)
- Amendment of Boiler Act bears fruit, flipping politician (7,8)
- Root problems with low-budget entertainment regime, essentially (10,5)
- One lacking faith in field marshals (7)
- Make swollen English organisation downsize at last (7)
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