Cryptic crossword No 3,266
Tue 31 Mar 2026, set byBenDR
5
Across
- Jerry's usual capers? (10)
- Employment for 29 of 24 fame (4)
- Central precinct oriented differently in European city (4)
- For each one travelling in SUV, I get most cranky as the person in charge (10)
- Bamboo bear not so much, but some smaller mammals cycling during widespread affliction (8)
- Extremists from Zambia wearing mostly khaki arrangement from central Asia (6)
- This sort of thing is often kept discreet, tacit or even held back (7)
- Wide bin, really big one (7)
- Not usually, I hope, anti-African? (9)
- Those who served returning to get drugs and a strange glow in Canada (5)
- In regret, go back off script (5)
- Toil safe at sea when carrying secondary vessels (9)
- Western Australia briefly meets heads of new industry, also known as 29 of 24 fame (7)
- It's old, hosting 25 24 down & other 6s, origins going back 250 years since it was founded (7)
- Strongly assert "in pain, sister!" (6)
- Vaguer heros liaise regularly, and holy figures are often backed by them (8)
Down
- Enter writ, newly transcribed (9)
- Tools to wipe dotty head in pursuit of good looks (5)
- This comes out in online challenge? (8)
- There's a big one between Angola & Kenya (4)
- Worry about rub going wrong if extended session starts ... 24.25% of them go for an extra day! (10)
- All-in gamble is an art form (6)
- Firstly, apsidal points; here elliptic (low interference) orbiters naturally slowest (9)
- Small joints, or "reefers" perhaps (5)
- Most go through clouds, one through hills (8)
- Maths icon developed 24 (9)
- Ridiculous huger cars bring extra expense (9)
- Variety with big numbers in Australia, and more in development (6)
- What people want a slice of, including European Commission slice (5)
- Small pale bird (4)
- Expensive phone requires some help paying back! (5)
- Unhealthy? Chew regurgitated food naked! (Current mysterious movement.) (10)
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