Cryptic crossword No 3,267
Tue 31 Mar 2026, set byPhoph
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Across
- Captain is a winter sport prince (4)
- Statement you might hear on Countdown? (6)
- Silly expression of one who lives cheaply, foregoing credit (6)
- Themes refined by Uccam’s [sic] first collection of notes (5,5)
- Play here, not in bed with hot pairing getting drunk (7,5)
- Eccentric male overwhelms poor Eva with feeling of disgust (8)
- See 8a
- Cries as vessel holding the wine in Bordeaux returned (7)
- Parties in office regularly ignored by secret police - except one (7)
- Developing winter blues, unionist flees political enclave (4,6)
- Coffee shop company beginning to serve tips of tea (5)
- Records cut by a strike on face of headstone (8)
- On both sides of a street car in New Orleans (7)
- Sample of misconceptions in the past (4)
- Protruding jaw on ecstasy, yes? You get carried away on it (6)
- Comedian’s heartless gag disturbs rest (6)
Down
- He, as in Zak, could be a speaker of Yiddish? (9)
- Opening post: "Regulate technology over drugs" (7)
- Nervy poetic men not rising to the occasion (9)
- Broadcast arresting chic hit coming to a bitter head? (9)
- For each child a role (7)
- Large politician consumed by drink (5)
- You wait all winter for one, then they materialise like buses perhaps (4,5)
- Riled about clock-watcher (5)
- A playwright of glib sensibilities (5)
- Maybe Snowden was a show-off? (7)
- Put on male animal energy (5)
- Drink H2O with the A, B and C of vitamins added? (7)
- It’s rendered meaningful finally during solving (9)
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