Cryptic crossword No 3,465
Sun 17 May 2026, set byGuava
Special Instructions: 1a and 33a are undefined. They provide the first and last words of a quotation hidden across a number of other entries in the grid (see first comment / solutions).
Across
- With no end of difficulty, they start to laugh about dilemma (3,5)
- Maybe Dover Beach sees Arnold discontented struggling with faith essentially (7)
- Son absorbed by duty (3,3)
- Seafood's left to the right beside sink to chill (4,4)
- Good man occasionally takes turns and hoovers (4)
- It's said papers exaggerated position within Church (5,5)
- Feeling lacking in schooling (7)
- The question of dental deposits becoming early sign of gum disease (6)
- Adult weightlifters taking heart from using Vaseline cleared chafing (8)
- Great work with lines including ass in horseplay (10)
- Article on spot or boil (6)
- Toy boy that's behind alter ego? (4)
- Snakes in summer sun? (6)
- Waffles in letters written after receiving scare (8)
- Lacking foresight, compiler's work with Independent beginning to age (6)
- They might be committed backing mother with helpless maiden (6)
Down
- Very old man admitting mistake in the end (4)
- Wake up Clive, naked between two nurses (7)
- Accepting the facts of kingdom that is kept divided (7)
- First signs of the end: monsters, scourges and hurricanes (8)
- Pilot that inevitably lands with conviction? (4,5)
- Old Bishop's place has nothing inside (6)
- Welcome icy weather (4)
- It can rub when cycling chilly (5)
- Maiden spreads legs now and then? (5)
- Ruler at home throwing weight around (4)
- It can get broody with wife on top. I've had enough (4)
- Peeling off outer layers get out belly (3)
- Great starter - finished too soon - that might leave one aquiver? (9)
- That guy harvests no good plants (8)
- Baser fetishes trapping person in a life of bondage (4)
- Bloke’s drink in The Queen Vic? (3)
- One carrying the weight of the world close to rest, finally (2,4)
- Married and head over heels, say, about get together (5)
- Bird decapitated rodent by lake (5)
- Drug getting into boy's head (4)
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