Cryptic crossword No 3,243
Tue 24 Mar 2026, set byBenDR
6
Across
- See 21ac
- Try radical workers' leader captured by raid from the right, as occurred in 1970s 17 (5,3)
- President is a brave leader, with assistant decapitated at work (6,5)
- A sad piper played, as many did in 17's 10 (9)
- Square pyramids, triangular prisms, etc... dry ol' shapes, formed with no sensuous surfaces! (9)
- Moved at anger in country (9)
- He replaced 11 12 in 17's 1976 25 down after judge essentially forged most of video and note (5,6)
- Rank type of punishment (8)
- Dessert rendered unto palace? (10)
- Asian got hair cut (4)
- See 11ac
- Legislation pursuant to power agreement (4)
- King to win queen's heart, then notice holding an explosive device when looked at afresh! (10)
Down
- Soldiers stormed seminar (7)
- Fixed papers etc as per reports (10)
- Don't start argument and then stop, as some do after going overboard (5)
- Fare badly, which is a worry (4)
- Saint arranged music for hospitals (9)
- Singer keen to return (4)
- Rank, rotten green gore (7)
- News that is right outside, like the air in Cairo (5)
- Instrument with size constant... a "no!" for "take on vacation?" (10)
- Lovely doubling of constant in complex algebra (9)
- Freedom fighter, 54, nabbed by pig (7)
- One has mostly organic fertiliser, like some living in Latin America (7)
- Language nerd takes on bit of Romanian (5)
- Places where tea's prepared? (4)
- Firm excited for intervention (4)
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