Cryptic crossword No 3,054
Thu 22 Jan 2026, set byOuroboros
Special Instructions: (13a 8d: "5a 22d 19a...") 1a 26a a 11a 25a 29a!
A theme better suited to last summer, perhaps.
Across
- Bearing in mind, without hydrogen it's emptiness (7)
- Bring back awesome fish, my dear (7)
- Grant's very sore after fracturing elbow, at first concealing cry of pain (9)
- Bullseye's Head of Finance provided Tony's clothes (5)
- Songwriter snarling: "I'm the mean person in the middle" (11)
- Drunk students ultimately went fast (4-5)
- Minecraft Movie finally returns, led by Jack Black (3)
- Pop singer spreading Jenny's legs (4,6)
- You shouldn't have buried blunder in countryside (7)
- Director and American actress, not initially winning Emmys, run out (7)
- Seal cavorting about in the North American overseas territory (5,6)
- Couple of wolves turn their heads back (3)
- Half-hearted workers securing a term in contract for strikes (5)
- Thick wool coats joints (7)
- Hot one year - hanging around lido in resort break (7)
- See 22d
Down
- Over some coffee, Newton upset natives (6)
- A great deal of honesty embodying onset of Sikh faith (5)
- River began leaving its source and increased in intensity (8)
- Symbols of fish, yes, Christ had no right to spread around, winning hearts (9)
- £10 worth of cannabis - Ouroboros' award (6)
- Blast Farage making a comeback, suppressing small boats (5)
- Stress in fellow's vocabulary without hint of calm (9)
- See 13a
- Weed out? Time and time again, bagging up another drug, and another... (9)
- Requirement for crossing over: match Ouroboros at poker (4,2,4)
- Tries to break concrete drill (9)
- Audibly splits trousers (8)
- Pressure line judge to quit corrupt jobs in broadcast with leader demoted (6)
- Size of one who yelled "Seven!" reaching that girth at last? (6)
- Relish return of sex appeal during dry spell's midpoint (5)
- Course where nurse bandages end of finger (5)
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