Cryptic crossword No 3,511
Sat 30 May 2026, set bySisyphus
Special Instructions: 1d and 8a are a gateway. Inside the perimeter fence lurk a few Gridfill Traumasauri, but hopefully you will at least be able to spell them! And of course you can always choose another park to walk in 😊 For me, the challenge was irresistible!
Across
- It’s like undergraduates missing university courses returning all heads in clouds (6)
- Fooled Jack into pilgrimage (4)
- Gin found by queen’s ex? (3,3)
- After removing tungsten will university bottle such clay? (8)
- Jordan’s king gloomy, assuming an expression of disgust (8)
- Brandishing weapon originally concealed by your leader offering surrender (8)
- Piccolo Fuzzbox returned ‘essentially Italian flute’ (6)
- Issue student told off about (5)
- Altogether unlikely antique for Spooner (3,4)
- Montreux anthem more than enough for water nymph (6)
- Strove to blend constituents (6)
- In the end, it’s the way to go (4)
- Something woody and eco for two hot cake fillings (3,3)
- Creatures like buffalo and gnu returned with a foreshortened talus from the east (8)
- Breaking twitch I thrash giant (7)
Down
- STUDENT’S SPECIAL BREW FOUND IN GERMAN CAR - leading story (5,3)
- Learned from English edition about old European coin (8)
- Exterminate the lot (5)
- One aspect of goal that’s generally lower for women in the saddle (8)
- Militant Republicans question Bush’s WMD focus (4)
- Clio amongst others cycling to deliver large birds (4)
- Taking right rather than first left in French garden may offer this (6)
- Function of lettuce in first taste of entree (6)
- A short pass taken by Canada’s Celine with full swelling sound (8)
- Dish with blackbird? (4)
- Curse dancing with empty stomach (4)
- Six facing the same in Greek island (4)
- Slice of meat ethical supermarket ‘sharing’ fifty-fifty (6)
- Measure for a horse (6)
- Fraud in Amalfi doubling (4)
- Thora Hird’s signature required for French estate? (5)
- Do you do wrong in greeting with handshake because of this? Absolutely not! (5)
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