Cryptic crossword No 3,157
Mon 23 Feb 2026, set byicheath
Special Instructions: Today’s theme is the performing arts!
Across
- Lib idiots hug absurd animation stable. (6,6)
- Djinni is uncaged in a Tesla. (6)
- Canned meat frequently becomes musical. (8)
- Comfort food and renowned rocker. (4,4)
- Ninja aids one foolish academic with whip! (7,5)
- Stand in strip oddly. (6)
- Broadcast rations include rare singers. (8)
- Illuminated age inside untidy nest. (6)
- Valiant choir energy stirred. (6)
- Empty curse after drunken lips connect. (6)
- Highland girl’s screen dog. (6)
- Broken violin follows dad into bandstand. (8)
Down
- Roman general that helped defeat Buffalo Bill? (8)
- Tail fins that reveal the plot? (8)
- Cricketer loses seconds to become vigilante. (6)
- Well-known coin tossed into skinned rice. (6)
- Alien saga from a Virginia sailor. (6)
- First wife’s expedition to an effects shop. (4)
- Core of Rioja Co. bites thespian. (6)
- Dead man decapitated - it’s a long shot. (4)
- Stupid me, confused, befogged… (6,2)
- Zither in dodgy realty postscript. (8)
- Some did act iconically and self-righteous. (8)
- Artisans forming post-punk band. (6)
- Goat turned after the French played smoothly. (6)
- Calibre confused Eastern pianist. (8)
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