Cryptic crossword No 3,448
Fri 15 May 2026, set byncalder17
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Special Instructions: "Arachnophobia" - clues with asterisks (*) are themed
Across
- * Character turned rogue and outlaw in the beginning by engineered eel? (7)
- Selection of kiddie lit is thematically pro-choice? (7)
- See 10a
- * One bowled over with family pressure drowned in liquor (7)
- Deal arranged with bishop abruptly terminated (9)
- Success by striking, primarily? One's on the contrary (6)
- Zidane exhausted by supporter, one clad in black and white (5)
- * Villain means to develop cop-outs? (6,7)
- * I have Halloween-themed utensils and eco-friendly drinkware in for empty event (5,6)
- * Newscasts dropping insiders around live, with vital material about escaped convict (7)
- Dismiss Republican judge found with First Lady (7)
- Jump start communication with Romeo - a bit forward? (9)
- One working on blades from sabres regularly in Asian nation (7)
Down
- Ditching drug, ravenous criminal tucked into bit of utterly unknown sweet (9)
- Adding layers of ice can rot bananas (9)
- Extremely steep and circuitous path traversed by former soldier (10)
- I got livid briefly when developing skin condition (8)
- Spooner's peak bloodsucking: type ABs warned by it (10)
- King born in low joint among many animals? (4)
- * Have no mercy, embracing hate (5)
- Picked up two similar notes in humming "Party in the U.S.A." (6)
- Small piano, popular by end of Baroque time (6)
- Settles in a Mediterranean nation, shunning the present society (6)
- Highest point, almost - see so far (2,4)
- Shell out millions, collected by pair of bachelors (4)
- * Perhaps monitor last letter fraudster pens daughter (6)
- Choice of three regularly-overlooked stars in Austen work initially lacking parts (8)
- King bared iron perhaps in keep (6)
- * Large land mammal heard in river? I'm surprised (5)
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