£150 prize to the first correct solution opened on 16th October 2026.
Across
7 Price to be paid having managed to get a bit (getting end away)
(6)
8 A trivial, empty prank that divides Trump and Burnham (8)
10/15ac. Conservative in skewed national poll – idiot's left out millions in Reform's case (9,9)
12 Guardian – dearie me – has outright rubbish leaders (5)
13 About to have leader of Costa Rica removed (5)
15 See 10ac.
17 Publicity operation mired in hostility amounts to misconduct (11)
21 Grant's large penis? (9)
23 Enter: "Kinky elasticated tops, one Scottish" (3,2)
24 Discussions utter shit – knock off (5)
26 Start to admit having large bollocks squeezed by mate is a help to lawyers (9)
28 Burnham's house inspectors caught (8)
29 Tabloid's onto Brown's memento of a Caribbean visit? (6)
1 Cyclops caught in embrace of bad sport in steamy location? (7)
2 Melania ("not me, not I!")
turns up, arse-like (4)
3 Stupid or daft clown dropping Democrat's traffic management scheme (10)
4 Hot woman's wear (Northern)
(6)
5 Alliance prepared for a holiday broadcast? (4)
6 Burst into tears about bloody missing family's forms (10)
9 Prudence, the Nazi organisation's soft touch (6)
11 Cops on about booze (5)
14 Being sadly older led me to get cast in a new way (10)
16 Say what's on your mind! (5,5)
18 Provide the decentralised cutting of Conservative and Reform leads (5)
19 That bloke Trump, militarily speaking, tense inside, is chaotic (6)
20 Nigel turns one off with "Nation!" (7)
22 Ending of the Times by bold old hand (6)
25 Filth produced by corporations on the rise (4)
27 Old warlike type became hard (4)
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