Cryptic crossword No 3,083
Sat 31 Jan 2026, set byCigogne
Special Instructions: Warning: each and every clue is likely to offend the sensibilities of any seasoned solver or setter.
Across
- Adult has tea mixed with cane spirit (6)
- Granny kneaded bread (4)
- Imitation of a soft cocktail of juniper-flavoured spirit (5)
- Piece for soloist (small trumpet) playing with chamber orchestra primarily (8)
- First lady arriving at extravagant theme park on a ship, demonstrating pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth (5,6,4)
- I brewed ale, and it gets drunk (10)
- Kill nasty little rodents, common around here (7)
- At University, smoothing crumpled laundry desperately with a laptop's lid is old hat (10)
- I made a mistake, carelessly, about celeste at heart sounding more like an oboe (7)
- Space to move faster than a trot, spreading delight (8)
- In Tempest, Prospero's daughter creating forbidden wordplay (8,7)
- Big fireplace refurbished (5)
- New hospital doctor rang (6)
- Israeli airline flying everyone to Germany (2,2)
Down
- Fish to go belly-up, unfortunately (3)
- Perhaps the concert's gone wrong (7)
- German play involving depressed donkey, panther and, originally, nine people (10,5)
- Clue leading to Australian wild dog's heinous crime? (9)
- Dark matter is complicated (5)
- Good example of French cherry bubbly bottles (4,5)
- 8d to sleep in temporary accommodation, having been embroiled in misconduct (11)
- Contravenes Government rules made, ultimately, in enigmatic capital of Chile (4,7)
- Sea creature long in the tooth, but alert, surprisingly, to dangerous artificial intelligence (7)
- Felt angry with terrible exam result (5)
- Preparation of fine mountain tobacco from Morocco? (7)
- Baby consumed onion skin messily (7)
- American Uncle dancing in Caribbean Carnival (3)
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