Cryptic crossword No 3,126
Sat 14 Feb 2026, set byShroom
Special Instructions: Several clues are of a type, including 22ac which has no further definition.
Taking a leaf from Baz's crossword, tried to keep clues a bit more succinct this time.
Across
- Boy sterilises a little mollusc (6)
- Mate takes drug out of back passage (4)
- Fastening behind leg (6)
- We'll pay for this duty (4)
- Setter covered with poop, raked ends off (8)
- Odysseus returned here with a cat skinned (6)
- Oxford or Cambridge's endless heavens before me, totally empty (10)
- Industry CEO abandoned non-urban areas. (11)
- PA in good time after finishing copy (6)
- Italian's verdict ("beautiful!") on Portuguese city and Notting Hill market. (10)
- Abramovich's one absurd goal to get horribly rich (8)
- Like an eccentric person in a bad mood? (6)
- Caribbean side meet South Africa on way - fantastic! (6)
Down
- Calm lake? (6)
- Spooner questions need to catch rays for Asian nation (6)
- Visit second person? Goodbye! (3,3)
- Sixth sense about ship with hole, makes strong drink (8)
- Saucer on board for roaming cats (6)
- Acquired this in Latin cathedral style (6)
- Mid-western state a banker's resort (8)
- Take public transport to famous loch without me for company (8)
- Had PC eat cooked fungus (with fatal consequences?!) (8)
- Stand up with ease for Porter in Macbeth, for example (5,6)
- Immigration agents starting trouble in Manhattan detail (6)
- Nothing constant, no identity - making Fentanyl, for example. (6)
- No case lost, unless thrown overboard into these? (6)
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