Cryptic crossword No 3,065
Sat 24 Jan 2026, set byPixie
Special Instructions: New year, new beginnings, with Pixie's 5th
Across
- Ballyhoo about myself twice leads to break (4,3)
- River possibly refreshed honourable pixie (not I) (7)
- Rare note showing courage when taking a little education for a spot of advancement (5)
- Comeback when currently somewhat calm at core (7)
- Sharp after excitement reactivation (4-5)
- Donate to toy boy a voucher (4,5)
- Unnerves when swapping leader for secondary fights (7)
- Breathed easy, encouraged and talented (8)
- Point of view: rainy off and on, and oddly golden (5)
- Low quality water shifting left to right (4)
- Broken promise and guilt at last reveals pretender (8)
- Alternative music produced from the midst of shindigs up to close of performance (5)
- Free from elements of rather inconvenient doubts over failure (3,2)
- Origins of MyCrossword offered journey of magic power (4)
- A Sky celeb sporting a couple of punch marks (5,4)
- Inventively clever, or innocently childlike if later I were you, reportedly (9)
Down
- Agree purple patch is returning for distant means of payment (5)
- Temperature complaint: losing heat initially causes sudden pain (6)
- Sign of a fresh start, and about time too, by the sound of it (3)
- Cold-blooded creature is outspoken greedy character (5)
- Row outside cinema café maybe gets more complicated (9)
- It’s all as clear as this, being mostly stupid, then getting upset (3)
- Frisky PC roasted online presenter (9)
- If stuck, a handy hint is such: push left and then pull in the middle (6)
- Public part in Velvet Revolution recalled (5)
- Thorny content every so often becomes a heavy weight (3)
- Vague outcome when learner circles one direction and then another (5)
- Rumbled? ‘Something up, surely’ said eager detective at first (6)
- Dirty look of riot women in prime positions (5)
- Succeeded in growth, yet bust (5)
- Appreciate ordinary in limits of even January (5)
- Correct the ends of poem stanza for book you develop (4,2)
- Old dandies tied knot, we gather (5)
- Knockout led to divine revelation (5)
- Set about to appeal to a masculine Parisian (5)
- Setter then also riser with this shiny cryptic day? (3)
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