Cryptic crossword No 3,075
Tue 27 Jan 2026, set byBenDR
6
Across
- Vehicle containing rocket perhaps, and a desktop computer part (11)
- Something of value, as lost in group (3)
- Heading west as an organisation pushing frontiers (4)
- Something 14's final mission was going to study in Perth back alley, with Caledonian taking me (7,5)
- Be bad back (4)
- Parent vehicle a highlight (7)
- Foreign aces rival Cleveland players (9)
- Curry often seen at court, 7 across out before public hearing starts (5)
- Check everything, with unusually green passengers on board this 18 down's last mission, including a "8 down in 7 down" (10)
- Second and fifteenth maybe confuse way of riding (10)
- After carbohydrate, this relative would get nasty cluster of boils (5)
- Censured saint is finally free in country (9)
- Part of 23 model's release price (7)
- Popular present, possibly piercing (7)
- 7 across off, but roughly cut short (3)
- They can help you cook meats and Indian breads with sequence of programs (11)
Down
- See 7dn
- See 9ac
- American method: moving chain (7)
- Broadcast 19 across (received by a sort of 7 across) before clipping of editor? (9)
- Seven lying broken by having fair distribution (6)
- Melted cheese in bed as requested (9)
- Expert fliers conquering major heights (5)
- Lady Spencer's bloom, as 14 met with in 1986 (8)
- This 23 is second rate, getting close but then let loose (5,7)
- Drink with celebrity influencer (7)
- Soothing sounds of lies about party you finally accepted when returning (9)
- Sliding, as arranged? (9)
- Masses sorry to accept it's an insurance job (8)
- Eternal Ness led astray (7)
- Country imprisons union figure (6)
- Company beginning with simple boat or ship? (5)
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