Jumbo crossword No 23
Sat 27 Jun 2026, set bycryptodarby
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Special Instructions: Seven clues, related to 24ac, 26ac lack a definition. Other clues are normal.
Across
- Capital coming from brothels in Kiev (8)
- French one follows Hansel and Gretel initially (7)
- One seen behind 3dn or 5dn? (4,3)
- Person most curious about weight of opals or diamonds say (11)
- Scenario rewritten to exclude Oscar (7)
- Image could be close to faint halo in NE (9)
- Aquatic god upset Irene in retrospect (7)
- Villain in Genesis exhausted, grabbing cockney girl (7)
- Heather following a doctor sauntering (7)
- Ghastly devils value these entertainments (11)
- Dainty TV father chirped (7)
- Two women holding one rope, not initially tied up (11)
- Primarily narcissistic as well as bombastic ruler (5)
- See 36a
- Crows’ arms often sought by Vera (6,7)
- Involve inpatient ailment (6)
- See 21d
- Overseen after setter returned giving relief (8)
- Boy got zero in maths unfortunately (6)
- Fusion of frilly legwarmer outlawed (6)
- See 24a
- Plots in gutsier novel (9)
- 7 mental exercises leading to servitude (11)
- Sloppy gruel (5)
- Demanding woman, sex-negative lost 15 in confusion (9)
- Restore Trump libido? Please No! (6,8,3)
- After alfresco frolic female leaves (6,3)
- Country doctor gets X-ray for daughter (6)
- Vagrant French blokes ignoring good short jackets (11)
- Harry with yen for ceramics (7)
- Tomato skin pie cooked with river fish (7)
- Dog and cat return before the high-explosive royal crime matriarch (9)
Down
- Oh! Trump’s chaos made crazy (5,3,9)
- Children's unlikely savior (9)
- Flyover very important aristocratic leaders of the french court (7)
- Unruly no-good gentlemen for 1 ac perhaps (7)
- Top seadogs and butterflies (8)
- Me too anger vexed oddly (5)
- Blood pressure measurement is costly treatment (8)
- Emaciated black European bansihed (4)
- Japanese poetry featured in Sophia Loren-Gary Cooper movie (5)
- I scrubbed toilet fluid suitable for composting (15)
- Barely seen North American tourists avoiding Ohio (9)
- Cavalier noble gent flew around Italy (4,10)
- Make tea with local for new-age local (7)
- Try boxing contest more ponderous (7)
- Out west below-par oarsmen can reach it (7)
- See 53d
- Disney character boy returns freshly delivered florentines (8)
- Extremists, say, found in geographic extremes (7)
- New spin for crop improvement (5,10)
- African leader once oddly ignored Mr George after Dec 31 (7)
- Rabid dogs put me into oil burner (6,3)
- Fog mirror with one's trumped-up old polly (6,8)
- Forthright old boy initially cast in Lear, perhaps? (5,6)
- Le Mans tortuous for English saint (6)
- One hundred and one cold, light in frozen dripwater (7)
- Mountain dweller now surrounded by climbing mugs (4,3)
- Power for a non-drinker from Margaret River perhaps (4)
- Fruit to brew rice so intoxicated (10)
- Mary Jane supports rockmelon to make aromatic ingredient (10)
- Conman takes MP for millions in scramble (7)
- Author 51 in terrible danger leading to train wreckage (9)
- Tolerate a bathroom fitting that doesn't close (5)
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