Cryptic crossword No 3,477
Thu 21 May 2026, set byPodger
Special Instructions: Populating the grid will reveal a "bonus ball" which might be clued, "Shock deed: Norwich City thrashed badly! The other side is simply better! (3,3,3,7,5,3,4)"
Across
- Smartly dressed socialite making appearance on TV (8)
- Explanatory text discovered, for instance, about quote (8)
- Type of music that has not stopped recording (4)
- In part, backing regicide made powerful Italian family (6)
- Money's low, Prince makes a comeback (6)
- Desperately want to get hold of Personnel Department? It’s perverse! (6)
- Obsessive rejected part of explanation (4)
- Surprisingly Kylie Minogue’s discontented with very good English dessert (3,4,3)
- Take That! Jason, Argo and Golden Fleece finally all at sea (6)
- Satirist extremely unfortunate, we hear, to get prison sentence (7)
- People lacking leadership for a hundred years oddly rejected disciplinarian (8)
- Ancient chariot is crashed by learner (10)
- Labour - more than usually - is OK about Minister backing counter-argument (8)
- Communist International beginning to subvert MPs (7)
Down
- Part of Northern Ireland is like this clue (4)
- Professional thespian loses face becoming someone who invigilates exams (7)
- At first every horse in Scottish Grand National gets excited and emits whinnying sound (6)
- In Rome, you and Augustus drained drinks (4)
- Editor enlists workers to do his job (5)
- The heads of Russian intelligence once released polonium outside - hard cheese! (8)
- Dick’s turning us on, being supremely confident (8)
- Live on dressed seafood and wine (6)
- A couple of setter’s books are due shortly (8)
- Baby milk provider turns out small bottles (3,5)
- Outspoken rap artist guys drink drivers (7)
- My toilet’s backing up – that's Tex-Mex food! (5)
- A change in temperature makes hood cry (4)
- American soldier’s extremely angry about Wounded Knee (6)
- Middle Eastern ingredient - it’s sent back after Scots consumed (6)
- What Greg Louganis did, becoming an advocate for peace (4)
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