Cryptic crossword No 3,257
Sun 29 Mar 2026, set byOrinoco
Special Instructions: Another attempt at a themed puzzle. All feedback gratefully received, thanks!
Across
- Drunk Andrew downs dram, bereft (4,3,3)
- Patricia sometimes covers over artwork (6)
- Android mobiles replacing Apple kit originally rejected - it's fate! (5)
- Song about The Man? (6)
- Scoring zero, around about (8)
- Creep harps about leaving very quietly to study (8)
- Federal operator inland cleared out a state (7)
- Simple problem for a double date? (3,4,3)
- Woman who makes trousers in a pair (4)
- Police constable arrests model, one that's supple (7)
- Soldier without papers is suspicious (8)
- Prime beef tail with liver stuffing (4)
- Street Spirit: one-time hit for Almond and Ash? (5)
- Adapts river source to end vulnerability (4,4)
Down
- Spooner questions point of sunbathing in East Asia (6)
- Slender behind: loose knickers, skirts pulled up (8)
- Is son following Bob into exit? (6)
- Horse steps unsteadily on 2 legs? (10)
- Cliff support follows contours (7)
- Only fair (4)
- Adonis and Jack work on butts (7)
- Music all young dudes are starting to play at last - help! (6)
- Simon's old friend asks nerd out (8)
- Frenchman, perhaps in part, disowns all alternatives (8)
- Copy of a kettledrum part (4)
- Circle on/off motorway, redirecting one that's following (8)
- Lucky things: men joining bender shortly, filling up tills! (10)
- German doctor reverses over foot (6)
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