Cryptic crossword No 3,347
Fri 24 Apr 2026, set byemaherself
Special Instructions: My setter debut. Mostly Ximenean (to the best of my abilities). Hopefully a fun cryptic for intermediate solvers or a challenge for beginners.
Across
- Setter will not exhale, still somehow starts disease (7)
- Disdain from trick and charm (8)
- Cursed pentagram swallows ring with origin of evil, summons fruit (11)
- Legendary setter's dumb, short (6)
- PM varies, unruly suckers? (8)
- Freeloader is average with a home (8)
- Pitfalls of chaotic SNS era (6)
- Truth or part (6)
- A softly messy hairdo [sic] for Spanish fly, say (11)
- See water or steam, perhaps? (6)
- Weird intros let some beginners face openings (8)
- Tournament drops university and North America for harassment (7)
Down
- Unusual wild playact involving setter (8)
- Challenge climbing set over time (4)
- Only part of former election (4)
- Risk former stance losing time (8)
- Cover of ionomer is flower (4)
- Hop on chosen houses, cover for rain? (6)
- Subtle designs for ballet, for example (4,4)
- Twist pinches from below (4)
- Ending is request for barber, perhaps? (3,5)
- Metamorph, missing one male, morphs as symbol (8)
- Closely, oddly, tinily embraces friend (10)
- Scents of catastrophic senesces (8)
- Divisive page upset original about unknown (10)
- Carelessly annoy English soul? (6)
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