Crossword Puzzle Challenge: No 30,101
Delve into the intricacies of our latest cryptic crossword, featuring a blend of clever wordplay and challenging clues designed to test your thinking. Ensure you maintain a copy of your progress, as the puzzles save automatically.
Across Clues
7. Enhance plan – after all – to thwart game seekers (4,4)
9. Endure hunger management – they feast on corpses (6)
10. Team assembling angle fixtures (4)
11. Simply fear investing days operating in obscurity (10)
12. Villain intimidator near sparring platform (6)
14. Pair of caregivers avoiding part of my appeal (8)
15, 17. Attain excellence by crafting loaf or diminutive stone pastry (5,1,6)
20. Observers attend musical’s debut – illumination occurs here! (4-4)
22. Reside in Le Mans – plus the vehicle? (6)
23. Animation canine nips elderly lady grasping feline nourishment cans? (4,6)
24. Substantial gap in single knot (4)
25. Segment of bachelor event at adult club demolished promptly (6)
26. Propel an acceptable course in speed trial (4,4)
Down Clues
1. Engage in strategic moves – intermittently observing within caverns? (8)
2. Stiffened arm muscles following elevation (4)
3, 16. Interrogate weaker entity? Attempt physical activity. (Perhaps one remains with a workstation throughout the day) (6,8)
4, 22. Indicates he possibly swung bat for regulation (5,3,4,2)
5. Conjure up escorting motorists northbound along M1 to witness Coral’s kin? (3,7)
6. Retain all within dire booklet (6)
8, 19. Inventor non-cooperating with NYC district (6,6)
13. Maternal figure might blurt this awkwardly – act wisely and graciously (6,4)
18. Elegance symbolised Cecil Day … (8)
21. … Lewis’s persona – unequivocally yet indirectly (6)
24. Opt to interchange grips and sketch (4)
Reporting based on coverage first published by theguardian.com.