Jumbo crossword No 20
Sat 25 Oct 2025, set byGuinevere
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Special Instructions: Puzzle created for the York Sloggers & Betters 2025
Across
- Model craves 67 designer (7)
- Sexy snap uncovered (3)
- Starting comeback of French milk in Italy (7)
- They are conveyers of very fine missing heroin (7)
- Tory protected by legislation screening 81 money store (7)
- Question terms of restrictive pub lease rhetoric - it’s said to represent letter (6)
- Some time in the past you saw Fry naked (4)
- Dance exceptionally, without limits - cracking bottom! (7)
- Spy caught baron, dope swimmer (3,4)
- Officially concerning Church leader in Scotland and Monarch (2,5)
- Wishes for future exams to include only the early bits of The Alchemist, Middlemarch, Emma and Nostromo (10)
- United nil, first two for Newcastle (3)
- American soldiers in prison area (7)
- Partner, you are faced with a layperson (7)
- They don’t count missing 17 (2,3)
- …close to a round! (5)
- Craft ‘special’ joint (4)
- Fruit goes past its prime (5)
- Reversing beer truck some distance (4)
- Union a lie, clan disintegrating (8)
- Reveals what’s behind low points (5)
- Admitting centre of Blackpool colder and more offputting (6)
- Starts off royal artwork detailing intricate unicorn symbolism that’s found in arms (6)
- Shooter, origin of incident on outskirts of ULEZ (3)
- Con foreign character returning dog (3,2)
- Name dropping in theatre district (4)
- Encourage and help with cycling test (in realistic circumstances) (4)
- Go, it’s on green?! (4,4)
- 24 forgets the last of the Twelve (4)
- Some assassin in Japan (5)
- Whirlwind blowing on round (5)
- Drug king? (7)
- Practices, removes evil energy forcing out ghost, essentially (9)
- Ripped notice first we see of oncoming storm (7)
- Lead in Othello, introduced by key part (usually female) (4)
- Toy cars unwrapped, ready (6)
- Sudden increase in business, getting one 1 down for another publication (4)
- Nigel’s husband butchered language (7)
- Mother in law, beast, intimidating figure? (7)
- Eggs VAR, obscuring referee going after ball (3)
- Public transport was busy, running in the wrong order (7)
- Pulled it off, doctor deduces, with the involvement of church (9)
- Report personal artwork seized by someone on vacation (5)
- Finishing school for them, perhaps, lesson on the top floor? (5-5)
Down
- One opposing white gang snubbed English breakfast? (5,3)
- Old brass money chests (5)
- Harry odd ally for Mum? (3,4)
- On your own, thus pronounced ‘unhappy’ (4)
- Present treasure chest unopened (5)
- Top marks - international no 1 in forensics - no way! (2,2)
- Supply all Brie free (7)
- Empty sycophancy burst unbounded - it’s sickly sweet (5)
- Ant’s mate covering bit of hot wood when Santa comes? (8)
- Spades - nine? Wrong way up! (3)
- Principal characters from Antony and Cleopatra close to finest performance (3)
- Tiger who eats cereal with Yankee lost weight (3)
- John, a district attorney, somewhere in North America (6)
- Large number distributing handouts (8)
- System of weights regularly lifted at BrNo gym (4)
- The Reverend’s serenade, perhaps - plucky thing - best quality! (4,4)
- Tony, eponymous gangster soak, controlled 25 (7)
- Computer department, a lonely hollow place (5)
- Train tours are rearranged (8)
- Quiet monkey eating green veg (7)
- Paper Towns is my essay subject, principally (5)
- Sun viral article finally translated for everyone (9)
- Spooner’s millinery is in his true character? (2,5)
- Regret a ruckus involving rampant cleric (6)
- Measure beams, but only on the inside (4)
- Making record of hard-hearted lack of substance (7)
- One afternoon, in recent times (3)
- Delivered second-class or first for next-day? (4)
- Provokes heartless deities (4)
- Trivial, without beginning like a pedant (4)
- Modifies complicated mod rules (8)
- Half-cut address preceding evil worship (7)
- Hearty? (7)
- On top of topless fan (4)
- Secret agent concealed tip of épée - made corset stiffer (5)
- European feeding trough rolls around (6)
- Totally sick ingesting sodium (2,3)
- Given shoes, restored, reportedly (6)
- Correspondence writer is on the up, welcomed by the Spanish (5)
- Mindless followers go hard in revolt, supporting extreme character in riots (5)
- Indiana Ambassador’s source follows vehicle collecting unknown eastern ruler (7)
- Throw out net, capsizing less than five days per week (4-4)
- Publicity expectations exhausted reliable force (8)
- More or less archaic dancing - no laugh! (5)
- Cryptic guru without limits - a head for anagrams, infinite ace, revolutionary voice (9)
Guinevere has provided annotated solutions for this crossword.
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