Cryptic crossword No 3,170
Sat 28 Feb 2026, set byOrinoco
Special Instructions: This is an attempt to set a Quiptic/"Mondayish" cryptic aimed at beginners. I always find it difficult to gauge the difficulty of my puzzles though!
Across
- Carnival not opening is illegal (6)
- See 13a
- Agree to get married after admirer (8)
- Graduate's pack hound? (6)
- Cut around soft weave (6)
- Fine cookbook Ayesha's holding (4)
- Risky way of killing flying vampires? (4-6)
- Expert farmer's place, perhaps? (11,2,3,5)
- Collar pin (4)
- Went again, returning stronger? (6)
- House over on Dream City? (8)
- Perhaps stop a Labour communication? (6)
- War in IRA over brand? (6)
Down
- Curry (phaal) as a meal, gobbled up (6)
- Develop a French pleat (6)
- Festival about validity? No thank you! (6)
- Approved design: ball dress taken up and altered (8)
- Stylish, like an actress? (6)
- Half of Swedes admire passion (6)
- Spooner's positively erotic good wishes! (5,3)
- In Hawaii, some Republicans are different (but fundamentally still the same?) (6)
- Stumbled on low-grade light source (6)
- Women wearing uniforms on ship eagerly decide to start getting impregnated (8)
- Shameful figures clad untidily (11)
- Northerner at church ruin (6)
- Man with organ played a tiny bit (8)
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