Cryptic crossword No 3,101
Fri 6 Feb 2026, set byKempley
Special Instructions: The same three letter word is omitted from the wordplay of 14 clues
Across
- Report from retreating sailor charged with four defeats essentially (9)
- Soldiers, facing terms of engagement still otherwise undecided, are given new homes (9)
- Uncrowned child heralded by the Spanish aristocracy (5)
- Russian ship harbouring apples (7)
- Attack river dividing peacekeepers (3,4)
- See 21a
- Part of investment I theoretically tax (5)
- Serene ground drilled by spirit makers (9)
- Impression of full moon giving way to morning in railway station? (5)
- On the lookout, van bore bananas covering up ecstasy (9)
- Inhale from tin provided by fellow (5)
- In period shortened by storm, education is taught to go outside (5-7)
- Displays trendy tart on the counter (9)
- Evidence backing docile countess at heart (9)
- Friendly with college ladies gathering (5,2)
- Arsenic produces thing of value (5)
Down
- Institution's retired art detective working after computers keeled over (9)
- Key element of regret nearly overturned (5)
- Banish actors I indiscriminately cut (9)
- Put things back as they were suggested by religious teaching (5)
- Material caught near naked blond (5)
- Crux of remarks about North American theatre (5)
- Fake cafe chain given purpose (7)
- Finished opposite to this clue? (5)
- Urges strangely entertaining kiss with husband prior to alternative! (7)
- Vote for Rhode Island metropolis lacking in power (5)
- Rebellious gladiator fights over a cut furiously (9)
- Intensive grief treated with pint (9)
- Humiliate royal during record rewrite (9)
- Supports you?! (7)
- Emptied chests packed with fabric drawers (7)
- Learner thrown out of big lessons unfortunately for fixating (9)
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