Jumbo crossword No 25
Sat 24 Oct 2026, set byevilflea
Tricky
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Special Instructions: Tenuous Tricks and Treats
Across
- Reviver heads to Imhotep's mausoleum, undead lurking in worship to priest's extreme character (9)
- Retirez vous en securité de la corruption de Monsieur Doom, avec le crochet. Fin. (4,2,4,3,4)
- Single, since Jacobean rogue (4)
- Left in difficulty back in fog (4)
- Vampire Evacuated Tube System? (11)
- Enforcer, carrying mineral to fight Nosferatu principally, has limbs fully intact - it's good to prepare for the worst? (10,2,9)
- A short time after, soldier, unknown, constructs device (5)
- I watch recording twice - poltergeist, not stirring at first, fragments, scatters, and comes out to feed (7)
- Writhe and hack to escape swathe of knotted wisteria (5)
- Say again to the inferno, let us proceed regardless (4,3,4)
- Fabricated automaton cat with removable panel (5,6)
- Look at read-out - extremely big gaps in lines where there are similar incidences of lights in sky (9)
- Snubbed teacher doing her best to give dishonest account (9)
- Body MRI On-Off Regression - if you think you recognise someone, it will tell you where you've seen them before (1,1,1,1)
- Pop, with catch overturned, throwing the game we play in the lanes (6,7)
- Disgusting filth turns stomachs (4)
- US spreads untruths following suspicions of Jörmungandr eating LA (7)
- For most of the planet's surface, engineering crazed, cruel, Vatican Earth? (5,12)
- Nick's tired butt taken to heart (5)
- Visions of shots besieging England's Crown at End of Time (9)
- Trick half of workers into highly controlled state (5)
- Music she plays about love with Leader of Underworld (5)
- With head cleft in twain, marries mutant pirates (7)
Down
- Show to promote headless Queen (5)
- Idealists point to USA's corruption (8)
- Sculpture, maybe as long as Illinois, spooks invading Synthetic (10)
- Record haul occasionally rotten (5)
- Storm hybrid from instrument unknown? (5)
- More readings, naked, with belly of entrails (5)
- Somewhere to rest, infinitely - until now (4)
- A barometric ion chart recreated spectral halos appearing in image (9,10)
- Vehicle operation: Program to escape South Island - Battle Maiden nearly on to Resistance (6,9)
- They stop you persevering in mind - retrospectively trawl through time, and note boring encounters, heartlessly (15)
- Vampires' weakness is holy man lying around under pick up (6)
- Almost in relation to, historically, a terrifyingly insignificant individual (8)
- Zealous ghost employee reordering papers (8)
- Originally Dracula kept in prison cell on ship to English Tower - London, perhaps? (6)
- The very first letters employ derision... (5)
- ...Social media, on the other hand, provides help to mad scientist (4)
- Crappy scarecrow acknowledges masks (4)
- Ignoring Dr Strange, revered as superhero cosplayer? (5)
- Target balls of men (5)
- Hard and cool - Luthor's lie about Luthor, mostly? (10)
- Duck is last to rise up in stables (4)
- Upset about being caught mid-snog, cycling in sliders (6)
- Variety of soap that resurrected dead man recalled half-heartedly (5)
- The Uncrowned Creature Of The Sea, found after Nemo's speculation (6)
- Pass out under curse using poisoned pears - I fail to recite strong enough mantras, and make things worse (4,4,5,6)
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