Cryptic crossword No 3,263
Tue 31 Mar 2026, set byGhoti
Special Instructions: All across clues are either 2d or 6d
Across
- It can precede liquor pressed up on boiled water or drugs? (4)
- Rubbish country fails to start revolution (8)
- Can blackmailers have you over this? (6)
- Jerk's pushback about blockhead (6)
- Outspoken worker to spend time online (4)
- User of pot, skillet, oven and eggbeater pulling out stuffing (6)
- Criminal wordplay, with final bit of wisecrack (4)
- What's oddly found in 22a and money? (5)
- Second-rate Papa Don't Preach finally ending (5)
- Fifty-first record (4)
- Raven playing with two axes (4)
- $0.0075 invested in logo that's smile-shaped (8)
- Three notes carrying hollow libretto for Italian member of 29d (8)
- We hear unarmed playwright gets a smoothie (5)
- Gun-toting footballer wouldn't want this in boot (6)
- Sales pitch for test drive (4)
- City to continue to provide chops (8)
Down
- Romeo hiding under couch, despite being so near? (2,3)
- Some phoney DEI truthers upset to have many colours represented? (3-3)
- Work I consumed reveals religion, according to Marx (6)
- Offending puzzle has no right to cheat? (6)
- Loudly disapprove of way to help (5)
- Model who will inherit what belongs to them? (5)
- Friends parking further down to find skiing spot (4)
- Headless badger, maybe, to move side to side (4)
- Goddess is in therapy (4)
- Headless badger, maybe, to move side to side (4)
- Admit boss occasionally gets preferential call (4)
- French horns no good for sampling (4)
- Naughty sunwear: a rude way to catch someone? (8)
- Cunning point mostly conveyed by oomph (8)
- Avoided drugs getting eaten (8)
- Scoundrel and upstart crushed by Federer, say (6)
- A cracking wind leads to elevated support for rail (8)
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