Jumbo crossword No 21
Mon 22 Dec 2025, set bycryptodarby
Special Instructions: Nine clues share a theme and are undefined. All others are normal. Many clues assume knowledge of Australia. See help in comments if you are unfamiliar with Australia
Across
- Sear lamb as ingredient of pub food (3,5)
- French liqueur takes angst from distressed agony aunts (5)
- Emphasise it! Alice is inside (9)
- Wild accusation without an unplugged instrument (8)
- Progressive humans want new look leaders (5)
- I left First Lady in charge. It is Illegal (7)
- Quaff or decant in some measure (5)
- Drunk driver crashed missing luxury car (5,4)
- Overpower electronic tango instrument (7)
- Pull back around 4950 (7)
- Indian reputation seen in pizza tasting (5)
- Pilot’s fear red wash in turbulence (4,5)
- Two short men follow irrational soldier getting 26ac nickname (3,4,3)
- Rabid guard dog nurses horse or skunk say (9,5)
- Adorable lass exercising with bike... (8)
- ...attempts first tasty European port (7)
- Chic to behave disgracefully at 59ac site (7,5)
- Meanies article missing about Pacific nation (7)
- Shy pygmies once made 19ac address (8,6)
- Disturbing fears appear around the end of the year (6)
- Spooner's forty winks advances (9)
- Divorce score in a French church (7)
- Small loss in face leads to 49d overthrow (9)
- See 35a
- Husband ogles first large model (4)
- At sea the hounds Ted lost getting to this island (6)
- Writers mask with dumpy nose unmasked (9)
- Automaton debutant briefly escaped from Morrison era scandal (5)
- Arabic son and daughter go with Penny, unwelcome in nursery (8)
- Individual boss (4)
- Absurd random lies mainstreamed (10)
Down
- Graft rib into fruit right away (7)
- Slight part of Kevin's ultimatum (6)
- Pick-up places for breast enhancements we hear (3,5)
- Less attractive bugler left off about one (6)
- Agnostics caught in greasy cesspits (8)
- Aghast, upset spinster on the air (8)
- Exploited like long white perhaps (6)
- Career vessel (6)
- NE breeze buffeted Scrooge (8)
- Princess with small shape looked ultimately misshapen (10)
- Ship's tools (8)
- Randy rooster’s lust produces 43 ac brouhaha (4,8)
- Join golf club for China (8)
- Putting 100 into one group to make another (4)
- Strut? Yes and no! (4)
- No road congestion but these might slow you down (7,5)
- Stop early for scotch (3,2,3,3)
- Flower for a strange girl (4,4)
- White lamb backs off (7)
- Old lady gets time for good radio (6)
- Pinochet banished 38ac (8)
- Elevates wayward pet puss (5,2)
- No end to extremist around end of this gold city (7)
- Helium and nickel in unusual metallic element (7)
- Hasty backfiring over US cavalryman (6)
- Bridge opponents competing and turning green perhaps (7)
- Discombobulated? Take gin. (7)
- Uncertainty after nine sex acts all over the place (11)
- No tiger harmed Andamanese (7)
- Cases of hitherto uniquely, harebrain Hanson memes appearing in fabulous horse race (10)
- Indian snack made by two fathers with daughter until midday initially (8)
- Bottommost toes will be 1 dn (8)
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