£150 prize to the first correct solution opened on 29th August 2025.
Across
1 Rabbit on book lover's top smeared with honey (6)
4 Illicit drug bundle – shipping hazard (3,4)
8 It's unrefined and offensive to puncture contraceptive (5,3)
10/25 It's often broken by politicians' lacking self-awareness – or my entire works (5,5)
11 Catchphrase of TV presenter with member flipped over (6)
12 Healthy state of my north-eastern paramilitary force (8)
13/19 Bitter period: Conservative, past it, needs break (4,4)
15 Guts shown by boozers holding a doctor back (7)
18 Smoke issuing from the woman grabbed by a numpty (7)
19 See 13ac.
21 Johnny, getting end away, partied – shameless! (8)
23 It's left of stage with a gutless celebrity (6)
25 See 10ac.
26 Goes into the back of goal – Foster's all round! (4-4)
27 One who seizes role of loan shark (without power)
(7)
28 Sailor who's experienced a dose: "Awfully good!" (3,3)
1 Spike troubles island country (8)
2 Naughty bits cleaned here – wait at end of street (5)
3 Double lavatory fitted on car – enjoy! (9)
5 Hint of frigidity about Pike? (5)
6 Go back inside prison, maybe, start of some expectation (9)
7 So icy, when screwing, hard – and rather evasive (6)
9 Wrongful war – er, Donald Trump's not much bothered about it (3,3,5)
14 Last month with speaker who papers over the cracks? (9)
16 Leer at a tit (no time, sadly, to reciprocate)
(9)
17 Mind Harry's protector (8)
20 Messenger, in leather, mesmerises (6)
22 Somewhat oversexed composition (5)
24 Good 'rush' from this vice? (5)
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