Cryptic crossword No 3,168
Fri 27 Feb 2026, set byicheath
Special Instructions: Today’s theme is work, work, work!
Across
- Cruise sounds like a bargain! (4)
- Sit on centre of dock with trophy …why? (6)
- Register initial trepidation in love letter (4)
- Boss and me back with scheme in front of emergency room (8)
- Complicated pose is a position down under (6)
- Fast poem put into disarray (2-5)
- Happiest princes beaten up in junior positions (15)
- Awkwardly withered pine oddly still unknown (7)
- Athena missed, somewhat, as a friend (2,3)
- Bell woke African unexpectedly from the daily struggle (4-4,7)
- Anger follows from unfinished metal in cheap berths (8)
- Uncertain dieter opts for trial phase (4,6)
- Court appalled, in part, with Eastern singing (5)
- Pay off pot menaces. (10)
Down
- Product endorsement involved awkward gulp and Spanish greeting (7)
- Occasional priests briefly retired (3)
- Permission a teen exploited outside working hours (2,4,5,4)
- The goon writhed while moving around (2,3,2)
- Evidence revealed in meal I bit (5)
- Able cop confused dummy (7)
- Pro climber inexpertly tackles jeep (11)
- Drink found in hot earthenware (3)
- Without feeling, carelessly enter PM’s residence (6,3)
- Killswitch flipped during spot search (1-4)
- Oath produced when trendy policeman reversed over rat in charge (11)
- Occurrences of dad holding chicken sign (9)
- Vocal work results in bad slip, shocking New York City (3-4)
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