Cryptic crossword No 3,082
Sat 31 Jan 2026, set byFossil
Special Instructions: 4 are omitted from the wordplay of clues wherever they occur.
Across
- District hospital (6)
- Repaired a plastic case which is over-used by Trump (8)
- One used to browse in church (6)
- Accepted logic, once deduction holds (8)
- Peer's picked up honour (4)
- Setter is stuck inside - can't stand winters! (10)
- Exhibits left on board (6)
- And what have you brought back to create mood? (7)
- Maybe CIA can, they would say, head off attack beforehand (6)
- Pine bought, expecting price to rise (4)
- Lit with piercing sort of bulb (6)
- More than one Native South African golfer makes his name with these (6)
- Follows players around posh cricket club (8)
- Set about building new fort (4,3)
- Height to which trees grow in season (10)
- Tick: small, blood-sucking insect (8)
Down
- Cruelty shown by heartless MbS perhaps violates minimum rights (6)
- Sports car getting detailed inspection (5)
- Old American jailed? (5)
- One telling stories propped up bar (4)
- Way ahead of match officials, ignoring annoyance to get to end of play (6)
- Briefly relish having old crook disembowelled with his own tool? (8)
- First bit of bravery from the French troops (8)
- Given up immediately, before time (4)
- Avoid getting second place in show five times more (5)
- Fictional drug written about in book (4)
- Finding a new way to manage rioter with gun (9)
- Wandering to caves in waders (7)
- Enjoys cycling broadcast (4)
- Letter to the Corinthians that's reproduced verbatim as set of notes (5)
- Be unearthed? (4)
- Make tea in this, did you say? (4)
- In the end, what became of John Gotti? (6,3)
- Took one's hat off to down drinks out of fine champagne glass (7)
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