Cryptic crossword No 3,256
Sun 29 Mar 2026, set byAbdul
Special Instructions: No special instructions. Big thank you to Fez for being such a great help in the testing and editing process.
Across
- Just making a comeback in freestyle rematch (6)
- Rescues from bodies of water flowing back, gaining velocity (5)
- Communicated out loud without thinking (4)
- Elegance of ten firemen working (10)
- Golf, walk, and run to get better (7)
- He's ribless, moulded in heaven (5,5)
- China's weather partly windy (2,1,5)
- Business with assortment of rare rum (7)
- Resent short fellow from Warsaw, maybe after lying around in embrace (7)
- Persuasion read, lacking leading character's boring company (5)
- Bond perhaps returned toy bear, hugging boy's face (4)
- Regulars in car show block westbound roads every summer? (8)
- Jay's shaving head in hairstyle — fresh cut's beginning (3,3)
- Pressure wound essentially covered by bandage (6)
- Stellar comedian maintains element of surprise (6)
- Want poetry's tense to shift while framing verse (7)
Down
- Ban business graduate consequently has received (7)
- Heard you sleep with shirt? Improper (5)
- Close chapter and endorse first part of Emma (5)
- Steps to keep emergency room germ-free (7)
- Relaxing, he's into Zen — shunning society, being focused (2,3,4)
- Sad beginning of Sense and Sensibility ultimately enthralling as an alternative reading? (5)
- Juliett and I to welcome in alien traveller (3-6)
- Demolish a hot dessert, and let it all out (4,5)
- Bled after taking recalled medicine declared unsafe (9)
- Hamlet's complex, evil, lying about upset girl (7)
- Drop show's curtains before Othello's gutted one's stomach (5)
- Firm advertises artificial diamonds being given away (9)
- Start to take it easy after cooking to the point of satisfaction? (7)
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