Cryptic crossword No 3,401
Special Instructions: Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright (Nov 29, 2025) – Released on the tour's final day at the Edinburgh Playhouse.
Across
- Audience put out by Hugo vacantly getting practice (5)
- Chiefly singing Tears of Laughter, Len earns bread (7)
- Rich, old rogue (not enjoying London's West End) makes bloomer (6)
- Bananas, biscuits, and bangers? (8)
- Notice one taken in by spirit's element (6)
- Doctor Goudron strayed essentially, leaving love high and dry (7)
- One who won't succeed alone is foolishly heroic (6)
- One who knows the drill departs hospital ward first (7)
- Cause Vince to lose head over reproduction's focus (6)
- Principally beautiful Frenchwoman – perhaps! (5)
- Spengler loses pound to idiot mule (8)
- Hare involved with plot? That means a lot! (8)
- Show shelter vet (6)
- Predicts muddle is written in advance (8)
- Flock westwards, say, to catch every third Grand Guignol (6)
- Stirred mid-rest? This might descend! (3,4)
Down
- Good entertainer finds portable lamp left burning in an empty theatre (5,5)
- Fluffed the first gag thanks to this! (5,6)
- See tick crawling over front of Angus' slipper? (3,5)
- Morose, being denied third of celery stick (3)
- Pemberton and Shearsmith primarily rile cast – they should get a grip! (6)
- Abductors having ribs broken by sleepyhead (10)
- Resin supplied by backward locals (3)
- Elated about northern couple separating shortly after row (2,5,4)
- Dread Hamlet's final blunder (6)
- Steve never keeps still! (4)
- Foreign character overseeing sanatorium admitted to murder – bother! (8)
- Shelter, say, suspect at large with hesitation (6)
- A common utterance when being shot? (6)
- Maybe eight co-actors, unnerved by eccentric leads (4)
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