Cryptic crossword No 3,215
Sat 14 Mar 2026, set byMethuselah
Special Instructions: Originally appeared in the Independent 14/3/25 (or is that 3/14/25?). Republished with kind permission
Across
- Tricky moves nan and son played in Scrabble? (5-5,5)
- Boss's secretary given buzzer that doesn't work (7)
- Mathematician's delivery person getting the wrong entrance (7)
- Made up and in agreement with date (6)
- 50s classic – presumably not the original recording (4,4)
- One on the rebound is content to neck with hot love (4)
- A bunch of retired coppers ordered penne in European resort (9)
- Old-fashioned denomination's terribly sad on entering bar (3,3,3)
- Female setter has X factor? (4)
- Blend of wheat and rye involving multiple parts (5-3)
- Notes provided around unfinished poems (6)
- Small quantities of heroin shifted in lofty settings (7)
- Old pope maybe recalling one with pride (7)
- School trips which caretakers are asked to go on (7,8)
Down
- See 4
- Hit on server, wanting one free drink (3,5)
- Greek character to keep so long in Spain with programme? (5,4)
- Base on Greek island reportedly crumbles (6)
- Initial lack of judgement's possibly done MP in (4,4)
- Some plutocrat fancied overturning old trade deal (5)
- Terribly neat duet made tighter still (8)
- Free kicks regularly taken by Methuselah in energetic practice (5)
- Quiet PM sent up distress signal (6)
- City welcoming a number being celebrated today? Grand! (4)
- Standard horror film skewering cornier novel (9)
- Republic of Dagenham and Stanmore reduced by 50% (8)
- A bunch of bare asses shocked judge again (8)
- American actor set aside, losing Oscar record (6)
- Reject detective stitched up in hearing (6)
- I Got You Babe ultimately covered by couples fronting rock groups (5)
- Eastenders in churches covering up large mistakes (5)
- European putting son on throne (4)
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