Cryptic crossword No 3,202
Tue 10 Mar 2026, set byBenDR
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Across
- See 11ac
- See 18dn
- Starts to judge actual chances, knowing pool of thousands in big prize (7)
- "Referee of the unborn" backing eleventh hour opportunity? (4,5)
- Cuddle boy around chamber (5)
- Accepting my note mistakenly criticising famous quarterback? (6,7)
- Prepares for publication, with steps yet to be arranged (8)
- Rainbow Nation expresses anguish about member's actions causing religious offence (10)
- New South Wales employing force ... hopefully this won't be seen in the workplace! (4)
- "Diamond Alf" billed differently (4,5)
- Get over being only half native of Madrid? (4)
- Controlled dopamine release for father with ecstasy and wine (10)
- Turn nasty with EU turning misleading (6)
- This pet may decorate your lawn with fecal matter ... check! (5)
- Awkwardly reverse park (7)
- Where you find young ones surer to go wrong in U.S. city (7)
Down
- Progress markers where some split up (9)
- Crazy princess becoming model, wearing no clothes (5)
- Regarding variations of elements is old theme (8)
- Georgia got rather loud, a social blunder (4)
- He played the 2 7 with a type of can and a type of gun (5,5)
- Tip of colourful flower which might be seen on dinner table (6)
- Of appearing in the newspapers, or appearing in lecture halls, an expert (9)
- Airs as U.N. set out (5)
- Coming back with shovel, bat, rope, razor... offering enough for a story? (10)
- "High" performance people, gone oddly absent from little mushrooms (9)
- Ghastly seedy dawn which follows night of U.S. election (9)
- Competitor in pain... reject "fair play"! (8,8)
- Waste humour on that girl (6)
- Head right for a lark (5)
- Ms 2110, main star of Big Little Lies through three seasons (5)
- Mr Green19 of great 28, with a close network (4)
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