Cryptic crossword No 3,013
Wed 7 Jan 2026, set byCatnip
Special Instructions: An anniversary special
Across
- Trendy wine bottles for music producer (8)
- Plays shots, bored by Australia's opener (6)
- Pauses Slade broadcast to accommodate finale from Noddy (6)
- Introductions from Michael Aspel upset Lily Savage (4)
- In the morning, I leave for China (5)
- European head pens leader in special issue (6)
- Dull second seed managed to take set (8)
- Bride's a cracking shag? (7)
- Maybe go number one in broken urinal after tiler cleared out (5,3)
- Small landmass made out from passage through sound (4)
- Prick about to get in the way! (5)
- Shut down design - "very loud" (3,3)
- Scrabble champion's first rule (4)
- Self-indulgent act matured with agent's focus being put first (3-4)
- Cut to involve academic being let go (8)
- Club without too many drugs? (4)
Down
- Lenin, say, agitated in a manner making no sense (8)
- Everyone in Bulgaria to have fancy dress (4-4)
- Nice and easy, for the most part, to infiltrate factory (8)
- I heard that traveller's giving up suggestion of violence for good (5)
- Argument from hurry to kick out husband (4)
- Time for classic British comedy (8)
- King wearing muddy jumper (4)
- Longs to ditch YouTube at last for Threads (5)
- Maybe crows about percussion being cocked up (6)
- Most unlikely component of plastic (4)
- Race nurse right around centre of Leicester (6)
- Period of confusion in conversation (4)
- Extremely wet Democrat ousted, causing tears (7)
- Blonde erected log cabin perhaps (6)
- Check inside climbing facilities for coach (6)
- Difficult Paul Newman film scrapping Hackman's lead character (7)
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