Cryptic crossword No 3,434
Tue 12 May 2026, set byOrinoco
Special Instructions: This is another attempt at setting a gentler, quiptic-style crossword, although I suspect I haven't hit the brief with a couple of the clues - I'd be grateful to hear what you think.
Across
- Youngster with remedy (5)
- Second language good for celebration (7)
- Going off switching sides (2,3,4)
- See 11a
- Flowers (about 4) inside hollow receptacles (6)
- Blundering around beneath (5)
- Albion beaches messed up - it's a warning (7,6)
- A married man in Westminster perhaps starts to erotically stroke Truss, getting most light-headed (9)
- Arabic cue user snookered officials (13)
- Hollow river plate (7)
- Country in Africa is in utter regression (7)
- Change journey (7)
- Hold a South American horse (7)
Down
- Design for shirt - circular stripe (9)
- Chicken or mouse guarding Dahl's crocodile? (8)
- Smart and pretty! (4)
- Fuss about special treasures (6)
- Draft rhetoric (4)
- Amusing or ridiculous idiot? (9)
- Alternative salary in Sunderland? (3,3)
- French novelist embracing quiet university (6)
- Hemingway re-sent novel (6)
- Unpromising result experimenting with different fuse added (10)
- Pride over survey with American for international accolades (10)
- Battered vehicle a journalist possesses (6)
- Side opposite actors like Dominic and Adam? (4)
- Girl (25), born Elizabeth Wilder? (4)
- One forgetting name unusually is held up over accountant (8)
- These may disappoint when damp (6)
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