Cryptic crossword No 3,487
Sat 23 May 2026, set bySalamander
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Special Instructions: An ode to my favourite young and relevant broadcasters. I want solve this rubbish.
Across
- Pipes, somewhat singing, utter SWANSEA!!! (7)
- Thicko deluxe essentially stupid (7)
- Grant torques it intermittently (5)
- These figures express magnitudes (11)
- Topless Dave going round having sex appeal, producing musical (5)
- Understand traumatic time and phase (9)
- Old coin reportedly tax deductible? (7)
- Aspiring actor's leading role? (8)
- Craftsman's fancy coffee, perhaps (7)
- Overperform with rhythm instrument in a Kia Sportage, for example? (8)
- Confusingly ran pigpen for French rugby team (9)
- Woman not the first caught delivering message (5)
- Land of dragons as the inhabitants say (5)
Down
- These intelligent guys are sweeties (8)
- Maybe deacon's facilities? (4)
- Pussycat's short hum is source of tranquility for perfectionist (6)
- On Radio X amidst criminal disdain for link (10)
- Lost head in defeat during competition, start to reproach flimsy material (8)
- Cynic cites "PC gone mad" (7)
- Snatch these from Victory's mouth? (7)
- Toys with breaking silence from shame beset by disheartened guiltiness (5)
- Stand-up shows potentially gatecrashed by rampaging ape and uni's test subjects (6,4)
- A hot one nobody wants to deal with (6)
- Complaint is ringing (8)
- Longing unfinished bronze street (6)
- A number of years of Adrian Chiles discussing delightful everyday ephemera, primarily at random (6)
- Retiring journalist, one in almost crazy cognitive decline (8)
- Enjoyably lyrical in speaking to begin with. Welshman or Swede say? (4)
- Pleasure from quite famous Taskmaster's head replacing train of doubts (5)
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