Cryptic crossword No 3,272
Thu 2 Apr 2026, set byOzpiper
Special Instructions: You'll do well if you solve half these clues. Help is at hand, one way or the other!
Across
- Metal press (4)
- Relief with two sizes of skins (5)
- Rider carrying otherworldly favourites (4)
- Jerk does part exchange inside (4)
- Sentry girl had meal before her male counterpart (7)
- Moderate Tories lay wreaths now and again (4)
- Sacks of softwood trees storing energy (5)
- Engineers using Lithium on Tesla, set fire again (5)
- Night life for most, else eerily quiet (5)
- Tradesman left in floor (5)
- Cover salt with pepper (4)
- Street record makes stage (4)
- Seaweed or not, at lunchtime? (4)
- Wreck toilet shed with eggs and mends again (7)
- Agitation for three players out of time (4)
- Hesitation expressed after good person has tattoo - nasty one! (7)
- Can't hear about Charlie being drug-free (5)
- Featured these days is in passing fashion (5)
- Cooked fries with flourish! (5)
- Identifier of trouble engulfing tech giant (7)
Down
- Saying pain experienced in speaking (3)
- Refusals of laughing gas (3)
- Electric car heading East to get First Lady (3)
- Corrupt, vile and malevolent (4)
- Picked up bargains in metals (6)
- Formerly Earl of Devonian waterway (3)
- I am very particular about beast (6)
- Pascal evens out manly marker (3)
- Offensive smell general impediment to progress (3)
- Setter reported Inspector (3)
- Occasionally wears reminder of the past (3)
- Almost got even the day before (3)
- Father returns carrying small snake (3)
- Wooden tongue held in trite nonsense (5)
- Thus knight produced heir (3)
- Group of nine trapeze artists forgoing safety measures? (5)
- Space creature let loose (4)
- Priest choking in film (6)
- Rains and snows downwind in streets (6)
- Exit second level trap (3)
- The French insert drip to survive (4)
- Sentence to be married in formal wear (4)
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