Cryptic crossword No 3,150
Sat 21 Feb 2026, set byGradgrind
Special Instructions: Authorship of this crossword will be revealed on completion.
Across
- Not necessarily right, though how it appears in atlases (4)
- Freed king hiding in unruled state (8)
- Protein food fill-in. What do you say? (6)
- Greases wheels after pound donations (8)
- French master who liked to create an impression (6)
- A pretty cold form of ancient life (11)
- Detective comes back about question in case (6)
- At first Dylan is wailing about love in festival (6)
- Have another go in fare dodging (4)
- Unexpectedly lacier tail in group of reptiles (10)
- Exhausted old queen welcomes bubbly lather (10)
- Not so much in northern award for gentry (8)
- Forget where motorway is situated? (8)
Down
- Writer embraces street food provider (6)
- Uniforms said to be essential for chauffeurs (6)
- Mandible - a duck feature on top of the bill? (4)
- Mysterious men scout near ditch regularly (8)
- Militia of yore: many slaughtered (8)
- The boast of Fleming's spymaster from Tehran? (7)
- Launch is a short distance after Poe's house (5,2)
- Sheep found in the middle of Sussex town (3)
- This sort of theatre staging is to stop working (3-2)
- Acknowledge recognition of action at Agincourt? (4,1,3)
- Further prosecutions, not just the first time? (8)
- Let out to build a mound (3)
- I delay going up to meet Pope, being one with heretical ideas (7)
- Clairvoyant stuffs tipsy chicken (7)
- Initially eating chicken leg, Alfred is reaching for a cream bun (6)
- Most talked about coats (4)
- Freight train finally leaves platform (6)
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