Cryptic crossword No 3,458
Sun 17 May 2026, set bySisyphus
Special Instructions: 27a,14a may clue the man behind the scenes
Across
- Established street value inwardly eroded (7)
- Tiara, perhaps, from Topman? (9)
- Deliver guillotine (7)
- Obedient daughter, cute wife, Lulu exposed (7)
- Synthetic fleas jumping (5)
- Rickety chair and a bunch of spiders and scorpions (9)
- Outstanding and incompetent? (7)
- Still time for conviction (7)
- Struggling Hector famished as fateful day foretold (3,4,2,5)
- See 27a
- Nina’s Crucible drama hints at rep’s demise? (5,2,1,8)
- See 13a
- Stagnation in period around beginning of Tasmanian independence (7)
Down
- Insult soldiers taking over home- creating consequences! (6)
- Puts out collection of papers going against the flow (8)
- Applause playfully received from dealer? (4)
- I change first bestie (5,3)
- Rabbit changing hands somewhere in Africa (6)
- Bird made of dark glass (8)
- Folded sheet at sea (6)
- Stupidly lets in volunteer (6)
- Time before noon repeatedly confirmed by gong (6)
- False gold in iron-ore identified (6)
- First person bound by Shakespearean prince’s word of acknowledgment (4)
- Affected the exposed matrix with measure of heat (10)
- A crowd, they say, gathering currently near pub getting worn out (10)
- Join queen, for example, jumping up into hat with a somersault (6)
- Such an intimate letter endorsed by Cachet de la Poste? (6)
- Alberich’s clue initially seen as good: ‘One going last to discover Italian hotels’ (8)
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