Cryptic crossword No 3,061
Fri 23 Jan 2026, set bySwanseaJack
Special Instructions: One very obscure word here hopefully with clear enough wordplay to make it gettable.
Across
- Bit of law old soldiers described as "off" (4)
- Chew toothlessly round face (3)
- Sofia maybe gets taken aside initially by an unknown for a duty owed to the government (7,5,3)
- Best originally used to make opponents seem terrible (6)
- Almost daily becomes less fat (6)
- "I will always love ___" sung by Dolly? (3)
- Need a cat misbehaving for a social event (3,5)
- Supplements with a couple of vitamins - 500 milligrams ultimately (4)
- Diva: Thailand God destroyed by a biblical man and giant (5,3,7)
- Dry wines for Charles de Gaulle and John F Kennedy? (8)
- Downsize British car , fully stripped (6)
- 3-3, two points dropped, I stood in for a kick (6)
- Pass the point of no return and badly botch recursions (5,3,7)
Down
- Type of camel with no tail is fed drug for germs (8)
- Quick, heartless attack (4)
- Medicine man is to some extent a medium (6)
- A coastline destroyed by intensification (10)
- Badly written law or better performer on before you (4,3,2,6)
- Brad from Warsaw makes paint for Pinky (4,6)
- Pool party after student gets taste of Ibiza (4)
- Room mate umpired partly with a compound eye (8)
- English queen hiding cat upside down and a long way away (6)
- Wrapped in foil perhaps I ache at gym badly and utter "Please!" (3,3,5,4)
- Devastated, Greta readies ego for compromise (5,2,8)
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