Cryptic crossword No 3,318
Thu 16 Apr 2026, set byFudgeller
6
Special Instructions: A theme to look out for here
Across
- She kills foreign invaders, securing head of traditional, western country (10)
- Olympic event where things get worse? (8)
- Release fire (3,2)
- Twisted form of exercise between warring sides (5)
- Country exporting animal skin to another (7)
- Where the astronomer experiences ups and downs? (3,6)
- Rod is one used endlessly, catching trout originally with skill (7)
- See 24d
- Make crazy by removing door? (7)
- Spaniard, possibly from capital, returned after turning love into marriage, finally (7)
- Welsh god found in Chinese shrub (8)
- Article found in search leads to torment (5)
- Minerals that attract giants meet in error (10)
- Not usually dressed, even to begin with (4)
- Presential attire is a winner at the table? (5,4)
- Promote perfume without money (4)
Down
- One tends to rewrite addenda (8)
- City party's central characters swap insects, initially? (6)
- Explosive ingredient found in newer tinder from the east (5)
- Northerner's heading for interesting night in Paris (5)
- Interrupt making one old key (6)
- Ghettoes evolving with no good drive? (3,4)
- Bus and rig crash on California coastline (3,3)
- Some guts to macho-man's fight? (7)
- Blanket answer to loud German a lot of help (6)
- Depressed revolutionary discovered eating hot dog (9)
- Where one might find climbers with troubles going into shelter (8)
- Musical actor supported by topless poet (8)
- Norris regularly lapping while amateur beginning to learn road circuits (8)
- Reason pet twisted tongue? (9)
- After games, East European took notes about clubs with songstress (6,5)
- Approaches twisted old city from the south (3-3)
Fudgeller has provided annotated solutions for this crossword.
question_answer
Be the first to comment!
0 comments