Cryptic crossword No 3,265
Tue 31 Mar 2026, set bySerbosh
Special Instructions: This is the amended version of a puzzle featured on Big Dave’s Crossword Blog Rookie Corner 623, following feedback. Reposted with kind permission for your enjoyment.
Across
- Outspoken warden has skill in combat (7,3)
- Unwell, I hear you, Ian and Tim somehow becoming enlightened (10)
- Delight sweetheart well into evening (5)
- Run with sharp object (4)
- Twisting curve of the back as knight turned right (6)
- Last drops of herbal tea after setback for company (5)
- Joy at first, getting laid with ease you might say (4)
- Start of reluctant nomad travelling with no pattern (6)
- Drawing straight lines can be painfully gruelling when legless (6)
- Drive fashionable Tesla bearing reportedly bad smell (8)
- Leading lights had sample remixed? (9)
- Perpetual victor as 4 might attest? (3,5)
- Stars bring misfortune to a good number of Derby fans (9)
- To move fast baller swaps directions (6)
- Doctor series turned out more stylish (8)
- Book First Lady and Queen with time for tea perhaps? (8)
Down
- Spot first sign of seasoning on prime cuts of beef (3)
- Trusting in slimline and gin cocktail with no recoiling (7,2)
- Vagrant digesting one document (7)
- Record pulled from criminal cell phone to get level (7)
- Characters cry (or lie as regularly) (5)
- Essentially devout kid, transcendent in speech (5)
- Place to recuperate when regressing into relapse (3)
- Frequently visit family member following end of lunch (5)
- Control area with body odour (7)
- Get lean dancing - graceful (7)
- A quiet wood (3)
- Initially guarded walker becomes risk-taker (7)
- Chap smuggling gun in clothing (7)
- Uninformed carrying shotgun: a war essential (7)
- Train around Europe exercising in trailer (9)
- Intercourse or some kind of rugby? (5)
- Rise in activity overcoming bloody monotony (7)
- Trouble running through meadow (3)
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