Cryptic crossword No 3,195
Sat 7 Mar 2026, set byicheath
Special Instructions: Today’s theme is crime and punishment!
Across
- Ugly scar after unknown cop show (1-4)
- Knock-off medication produced by using dredger badly (8,4)
- Take a risk scratching acne itch (6,2)
- Convoluted tunes meant utter lie (6,9)
- Foe gives up Yen for a medical procedure (5)
- Foolishly choose all cellar covers (4,5)
- Digging under (and adjusting around) North Eastern lake (9)
- Scoundrel begins to ravage our gorgeous, unspoiled estate (5)
- Deception found in a round of cards (5)
- Eels he cooked after a cold are my only weakness (8,4)
- Fatal shot executed in some parts of the US (6,9)
- Fugitives European sees around peninsula (8)
Down
- After short greeting, Jack authorises tomfoolery (7)
- A British lounge is on fire! (6)
- Lose one’s way in outer regions (3)
- Dance music produced at home? (5)
- Fresco loss insurance includes large statues (7)
- Tattered label on a piece of cloth (6)
- Bats in a ridiculous refrain (7)
- Assassination occurs regularly during heists (3)
- Random upticks in robbery (7)
- Vice turned regularly steeper for one losing home (7)
- Tennis-playing swindler, perhaps? (9)
- Muggers as canvas workers (10)
- Mike and Charlie speak to host (5)
- Faulty rifle in wing loses Western battlefront (6,4)
- Son pestered and grabbed (7)
- This creditor is fishy in more ways than one! (4,5)
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