Cryptic crossword No 3,169
Sat 28 Feb 2026, set byPhoph
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Across
- Repaired tramline leading to depot (8)
- Eco-conscious type fighting regret about digital embrace? (4-6)
- Well-organised teams taken apart in City's comeback (10)
- Large number of vacant students in class obscured by grade inflation at first (6)
- Environment in Michigan university stifles invention (6)
- Wild youngster losing head in military base (4)
- J.K. Rowling, say, lacking heart to push her former leader (8)
- The Pope getting around America twice in secret (4-4)
- Cut Northern flower (6)
- Comparison suggested by setter wearing expression of amusement (6)
- Change one's mind about period of abstinence (6)
- Tea brewed with a sock? For breakfast up north maybe (8)
- Sailor in watch second to identify Titanic's ultimate destination (6)
- Secure with rope, twisted for leeway (4)
- Kew's first border grass not the last British variant of Indian origin (8)
- Increase efforts 300% in total? (8)
Down
- Both sides of the house in a masculine appeal for attention (4)
- Labour's end heralded by socialist majority as new beginning (7)
- Spooner's simple club is the right place for a drink (4,3)
- Two needed for kink? Looker comes round for after-hours treat (5)
- Spoiler ruined the ending of Crash for buff again (8)
- Sweet-sounding Gibson, maybe, with awful backing (9)
- Fragments Cluedo’s Professor drew together (6,2)
- Songster sounds like frontman Phil for one (6)
- Mark's heartless talk about destiny (7)
- Profligate poet (7)
- Where tears are shed from solemn face (9)
- Sliced meat in messy orgy - Scissorhand's first (5)
- Perhaps 40% like boring afterthought (4)
- Exposed bad habits underneath sober effect (3,3)
- Footballer refusing to cross the line? (7)
- It publishes king, for example (7)
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