Cryptic crossword No 3,356
Sat 25 Apr 2026, set byJeremysIron
Special Instructions: As it's (very nearly) a year since I published my first puzzle, I've hidden a phrase which refers to the origin of my username, but also describes my experience on this site 😊 Feedback always welcome, although if it's about the obscurity of 13d, I'm well aware!
Across
- Tonight Toni dances, simple as that (7,2,2)
- For Spooner, unpleasant coffee can be no small matter (5)
- Did Teach turn crimson, losing rag finally, after disparaging noise? (7)
- Woman captured by agents, one lacking balls (7)
- Beast of vehicle I purchased with 50% discount (7)
- Diabolical selection of goods at an Iceland (7)
- Swimmer we recalled featuring in a magazine (7)
- Start to snigger during boob job? Where do some people get off? (3,4)
- Poet seen in online image having gained about 6 kilos (7)
- Familiar description of suspects rounded up in regular order (3,5)
- Fix up some iceberg lettuce; Iater, I'm principally making pasta (7)
- When unsettled, visit our experts (8)
- Dog forgetting about airborne trick (5)
Down
- In Tonga, put nuts in perilous position (2,8)
- Setter's heartless partner is set for jail (8)
- Vow to touch butt of global icon (4)
- Bread from Vauxhall - it rotted on the way up (8)
- Cycling rear, extremely nice moneymaker (6)
- Hood and "babe" regularly appeal: "Merry, perhaps, but no Man" (6)
- Leave on excursion to find sibling (7)
- Shakespearean actor's botched CIA job (6)
- Very small alien splits medical community (4)
- Many heard his trumpeting caused by stomach upset (7)
- Abbreviated gangway goes off to side in auditorium (5)
- Page boy ultimately decked out in green? (5)
- Stick message on vacant billboard? (6)
- Implant not yet dislodged from mouth (6)
- These folks love spot of blackmail! (3,3)
- Bend tiara out of shape, pounding it to forge arrowhead? (10)
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