Cryptic crossword No 3,206
Fri 13 Mar 2026, set byFossil
5
Across
- Maybe it's 7s? (6,2)
- Mere seconds before this would get you wet (4)
- Bunch of odd beliefs in strange, unlucky signs, principally portents, is absorbing setter (13)
- Cut horror film's ending, giving you nightmare, possibly (5)
- Police dog may be put in this at crime scene created by Voorhees going berserk (8)
- American bread into which lad stuffed hard cheese (3,4)
- Sleep outside lobby (4)
- Working to go after justice, like classic hero (5)
- Horribly terrify teen that hid, then take head off her, today! (6,3,10)
- See 10a
- Run on gas? (7)
- Chance is fair, you might say (4)
- Attack with lethal weapon is 12 for Greeks and 1,000 for English (4)
- Black cat, unlucky in the end when following 27 cycling? (6)
Down
- I blame a criminal for appealing (7)
- Three people sharing an office in Rome, with seven getting right inside unopened entrance hall there first (9)
- Try, but not hard, and increase problem for the auditor (6)
- Fish out of water, setter's in charge, which should be banned (4,4)
- In which 10a 12a showed nice characters butchered by mother and son (7)
- Cases of triskaidekaphobia shrink sees initially as chores (5)
- Rotten for us, led out of House of Lords, moved into another part of Westminster (4)
- Star that has filmed this may get fired (4,4)
- Organisation manufacturing coils accepting import (9)
- Keen to get spilled salt in glass (7)
- Girl could finally, on vacation, happen to break mirror (6)
- Babe, perhaps terminally imprudent to go under ladder (4)
- Implicate doctor - boring weirdo kills regularly (7)
- Broadcaster's to run horror film for the audience (5)
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