Cryptic crossword No 3,047
Tue 20 Jan 2026, set byMadDog
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Across
- The Greatest game never starts even (5)
- High school's most embarrassing keepsake: the oddities on the German Dept. counter, on the other hand.... (4,5)
- Egotistical obsession is something shared by a lot of people (4)
- I'm mostly into gaining insider exclusive peer influence (7)
- Stallone holds the leaders of Nickelodeon, IFC, Disney and Embassy with contempt (7)
- More than one extremely cold snap that is briefly surrounding the front door of cages (3,4)
- Lifetime's final forensic episode will be shown when subscription option #6 is updated to September 1st (7)
- Relative chess expert loses rest by mistake (7)
- Stretched out external walls on some types of communities (9)
- Genie's third gift is to describe Vince Vaughn's initial appearance?? (4)
- You can't stop me from monorail line redesign (2,2,1,4)
- Pluck last shred out of fireplace (5)
- Seamstresses hold knitting's first needles (7)
- Took good care of ten dodo's being stupid (5,2)
- Wham! broke up. The members formed a new group - Villians tm (9)
- Picasso, in his style, paints a group that can be blindly hit up for rewards (7)
Down
- Maracaibo is an exporter of palm fruit (4)
- Casino owner to pull Casey Affleck's early features from New York film festival (5)
- Catering to Kung Fu's star's circus area in the auditorium (9)
- Your first go round with Tamagotchi scratches silly itch to find a place where you can pose as a cat or dog or cow or pigeon (4,3)
- Seeds of actual belladonna in sod? That's grounds to get fired (4,3)
- After Galinda's denouement, Elphaba, rejected early and again and again in the end, is the most powerful (5)
- A-rated bop fusion to suddenly change the rythym (4,1,4)
- Performing cosplay in ape costume creates the setting for Planet of the Apes (10)
- Chernobyl might be the best example of heartaches that consume the souls of saints (10)
- Nuclear super hero with a lot of money is the essence of attraction (9)
- Wink at the corruption? Not a surprise (1,4,4)
- Once, I quit stoicism unexpectedly to become Friends with Frankie and Grace and Kate and Allie (7)
- Splendid clue I'd oddly not sold (7)
- Best example: A slope (5)
- Broadcast remained serious (5)
- Seven countries share this overly devoted fan (4)
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