Cryptic crossword No 3,136
Wed 18 Feb 2026, set byBenDR
5
Across
- Online agents collecting various crap erstwhile displayed (8)
- See 5dn
- Limits overturned (barring first pregnancy) for high altitude work place (5,7)
- Damaged rib to move around (5)
- Something in 9 a giveaway in location (9)
- Oddly, Google is last to report Eugene Shoemaker for one (9)
- Respond with careful trace (5)
- Multiplicity of detachable units, linked exactly so... primarily what international 5 across 8 is made of (7)
- Losing love, Norse god makes some noise (3)
- 'Broken Arrow' involved real incident, initially deadly one (7)
- 0-6 in set for team from 4 (6)
- Continually criticises women getting married without backup plan (5)
- Giving main address as Kensington Bay, foolishly forgetting elements of bans (9)
- People have fears for their loudness, most borne out (9)
- Some graphics used in revolutionary immersive gaming (5)
- Low point in Iran, being bombed with defence overwhelmed (5)
- Overwhelms partner, swamped with text (8)
Down
- Starters of recent Ukrainian slaughter, still in action (6)
- All a person's assorted energy needs might be met with these (5,6)
- See 5ac
- Stir it into layered stone (7)
- Applies with those that know best, but don't keep quiet! (6)
- GP returned to fill post, as awful compromises made (8)
- Rugby followed by bondage and discipline that hurts! New post-match treatment? (7)
- Post office worker gets a bit of bonus work to pay the bills (9)
- Edge back 20 5 across 8 built from 19/2/1986 (3)
- He might treat kidney ailment with mixture of soil and grout (9)
- Check edges in performing 5 across 8 hook-up (7)
- Delirium of posers embracing God (8)
- System to manage one device, plus one within five and a half yards (7)
- I'm one toxic influencer to copy (7)
- Rocket launched by 4... rebuild pronto! (6)
- Chemical mayhem underway, so pleased you got heads up (6)
- Sensible sort bores! (5)
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