Cryptic crossword No 3,421
Sat 9 May 2026, set byGennaro
Special Instructions: To go from 24a to 25a one must follow a hidden directive
Across
- Greeting torment with love (5)
- Bicycle accessory bearing stamp finally by U.S. official (3,4)
- Kind of mountain English find in central Europe near Tyrol principally (10)
- Department lacking leader after universal resistance and pressure (7)
- Criticize California with first sign of regulation for self-propelled transit (7)
- Breaking rule and stealing, ignoring laws at the outset (7)
- Stab made by Norway in winter sport (5)
- Instrument cluster in Porsche losing power, battery periodically defective (9)
- Detestable host with intermittently foamy ale gone bad (9)
- Decay in Washington present (7)
- Belonging to solver, long ago reportedly (4)
- Despondent -- no Scotch or gin, say (10)
- Mumble insult (4)
- Connecting university with money, the foremost of goals (7)
Down
- Windows, for example, smashed up with comet primarily rated for gravity and impact (8,7)
- Self-conscious and occupied -- not accepted with suspicion of ill-will instead (9)
- From astronomical list, oldest Jovian moon (8)
- Great number in large area without the minimum of requirements (6)
- Deliberately and slyly, bowlers originally used underarm technique in play (6,3,6)
- German family, perhaps, burglars to some extent (8)
- Caught man in fraud (5)
- Of necessity to Shakespeare -- beating enemy with rod (2,6)
- Some regret a bedfellow over an argument (6)
- Women sounding notable introducing distraught girl to essentially bright spinning toy (9)
- Attraction of Yorkshire river heralded by American students (6)
- Concerning start in facility (8)
- Baby at home cool and content at last (6)
- Knight at intervals being a charmer (5)
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