Cryptic crossword No 3,221
Mon 16 Mar 2026, set byPrak
Special Instructions: The title of this crossword is "Straight Dad".
Across
- Implies Matt's in the Med, maybe heading west (7)
- Doctor binding cycling layman's membrane (4,5)
- American dives as her roubles get scattered (12)
- Old attendants at Palace who have trouble spotting the balls? (7)
- Fabulous tree-dweller's deadpan commercial (5)
- Animal handlers pressure that woman to enter huts (9)
- Storage device has great error if loaded (12)
- Framework from church is providing shelter for animal (7)
- Addiction of sailor overcome by success (5)
- Coco disrobed best American swimmer (7)
- Expecting to lose September's third ruling (7)
- Choose meeting with artist's complex girl? (7)
- Fictional Venetian game (7)
- Give a kick to Baby, perhaps getting out of bed (5,2)
Down
- Hellraiser Alabaman brother grabs tool (7)
- Pure panic - gums peeling, revealing decaying matter (7)
- On Sunday, queen to see French water supply (9)
- In context, remedy's a bit much? (7)
- Having got hushed, auntie regularly dismissed snobbish person (4,3)
- Yokels decapitated birds (5)
- Brought down embarrassed University College journalist (7)
- New Yorker dries off after tea's splashed (4-5)
- Most relaxing nap with foot raised, following end of procedure (7)
- Leaves disco drunk on moped without jacket or visual instrument (12)
- Rubbish Christian taking on Yankee (7)
- Building site in Proust's old wives' tale (12)
- Faddist starts to hyperjump into Prak's spaceship, towel eternally ready (7)
- Informed about Latin terms that are irregular (5)
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