Cryptic crossword No 3,482
Fri 22 May 2026, set byAwkward
Special Instructions: My first attempt at setting here - criticism welcome.
Across
- Gum left soft colour (6)
- Point surrounds radius line (6)
- Chemical enemy scattered over zone (6)
- Yankee figure UN starts to call, leaving every state before morning (5,3)
- Knit oddly with West Indies fruit (4)
- Work before earl tests cosmetics (10)
- Setter overwhelmed by bizarre latest omen for final attempt (3,4,4)
- Package on following vehicle (6)
- Witch dances with diseased warts for timekeeper (10)
- Tree in genuine embrace (4)
- Repairs quite due for silence (8)
- Usher in messenger (6)
- Pesky ten put in, given away (6)
Down
- Mesopotamian Asian around southern source of Yellow River (8)
- Decline and evict after first rent (6)
- Dearest father bears one hundred (8)
- "Show up", said a mate (6)
- Writer begins perfecting earlier notes concerning innovative literature (6)
- Remedies outside moon site, with iodine replacing first element, are wonders (11)
- Finishes first electronics in boxes (6)
- Wholly following rule? (8)
- Post enclosing old navy or futuristic railway (8)
- Grumble and bend with gravity in Catholic's place (6)
- Live on pine and fit in (6)
- Oriental enters fights with these? (6)
- Joint energy over first youth in game (6)
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