Cryptic crossword No 3,123
Sat 14 Feb 2026, set byChlorine
Special Instructions: Dedicated to today's match, involving two happy solvers <3
Across
- Old protocol, one that divides court after returning to replay the point (6)
- Report what's at civic centre? It's your turn (5,3)
- Send thumbs down emoji, perhaps, concerning passage of play (5)
- Extraordinary Li Na, winning 1000 to become consistent (5)
- Luddite's response to mechanical beats? (6)
- Spooner's adolescents recoil at means of getting high? (9)
- After culmination of retirement, Nadal starts as seed? Not quite (5)
- Serena's No 1, so I claim anarchic ideology? (9)
- Kafelnikov's positive about mistake with passport: context is everything for him, philosophically (7)
- A swimming pool gas is suffocating, expect beginners' excuse (9)
- Showing flexibility, digs into musical retrospective (8)
- Mixed doubles - where Lenglen and Chatrier courted? (5)
- Chutzpah after low point shots sent way too high (9)
- Tense Safina to play loudly - out! Replaced by queen or empress (7)
Down
- Executed each dive shot (8)
- Maybe Madeleine's dodgy ace goes over Kvitova's head (4)
- Notepaper and pen produced electronic duo (4,4)
- Mischievous Murray - final lost for 0 (6)
- E.g. Why did the website default the match? 503 Server Unavailable (3-5)
- Dissenting voices wrongly say players clashed, essentially (4)
- Sustaining loss, Alcaraz showing part of the tongue (7)
- Stir up a green salad (6)
- Run behind, receiving slice from Edberg, making a meal of this? (6)
- Location of singles, Chlorine in Monte Carlo covers this country on telly (7)
- Sinner nearly climbing to top of tour, playing this ... (6)
- ...not to mention disrupted lesson (2,4)
- Indefinite articles, revealing performances (8)
- Triumph at the French for Graf and Agassi? (6)
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