Cryptic crossword No 3,290
Mon 6 Apr 2026, set byevilflea
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Across
- Shoot-out evacuated Westward Rock (5)
- Certain Everheart is lost, after Réginane disembowelled on Station Anew (10)
- Shut down Duck City! (5)
- Dumb Alsatians guarding wood (5)
- Travelling and not moving, adopting an array of devices beforehand (9)
- Malfunctioning iMac, after guarantee essentially, leads to ruddy awful language (7)
- Old argument with sister almost breaks doctor (5-2)
- Refined as yet unreleased Sid Meier game? (5)
- One beaten or imprisoned by politicians by day, for the most part unplanned (9)
- Clue is insubstantial, beginning to end (4)
- Doddering crooner tries cover without hesitation, making excessive "improvements" (15)
- Test of nerves to be drunk yet help groom with car (15)
- Another attempt to give colour to biblical character is half true (10)
- Complain of finally smoking pot (4)
Down
- Annual display of city art (9,6)
- A go in Jumanji: bees! (4)
- Single and experienced, from the South (ZIP/state) (5)
- Citizens caught unprepared by horse's viruses (7)
- Put out pipe! Unfinished Naples pizza is ruined by it! (allegedly) (9)
- Hearing favoured mission (7)
- Rebecca removes skin during work to reveal lizard (5)
- Beginning authentic, princeless romance (9)
- Old big Bill Fisher, I can not get rid of (5)
- Rings on promise of further explanation and contritious response (4)
- Old actor de-aged for Curt Gooding's introduction to English Year (5,5)
- Antipodean divisions start Swahili clubs (5)
- Wayne's butler, after two split seconds, gives opinion (15)
- Throw up reconfigurable tiers outside, giving more yield (10)
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