Cryptic crossword No 3,512
Sat 30 May 2026, set byJeremysIron
Special Instructions: A couple of relative obscurities that will hopefully be doable with crossers, plus what must surely be my least wordy clue so far. Feedback always welcome!
Across
- Former recipient of cap reportedly terminated nowadays (5)
- Attractive, surprisingly smooth body part enthralls (9)
- Pilot goes through Ottawa via Toronto (7)
- Robust angler from the East keeps insects (5)
- Essentially, they like sporting underwear for birds (9)
- Hosiery aunts principally wear, or used to! (3,2)
- Bitten by fish, knit frantically to make raft for expedition (3-4)
- Office discontinued this component after about '51 (4,3)
- Laps of adroit cycling (5)
- Welsh resort has defective name everyone rejected? Wrong (9)
- Why Fox and Kid may feel incomplete as they fight dirty? (3,6,3,3)
- Frustrated by added water? Time to replace central ingredient (9)
- Maybe outspoken Glaswegian's response to excess noise is to close up (7)
Down
- Single Ladies enlivening dismal disco on vacation (3,5)
- Husband trapped in pretty small slides? (6)
- Rain's beginning to get louder in square (4)
- Regularly quench your brief onset of thirst with well (6)
- Really carelessly, I gasp truth (8,2)
- Foolish character in film perhaps takes time at last to ponder (8)
- Clarity?! (10)
- Incomparably steamy nude club that is embraced by good men (8)
- Courted a supply teacher (8)
- Carefree existence comprising foods, beers, frolicking (3,2,5)
- Couple of writers widely circulated information (4)
- Benin civil warring that can't be stopped (10)
- European starts to nosh unsavoury cold ham, but he wants eggs (6)
- Hard song to perform gets cut (6)
- Almost destroy new oven (4)
- Following church, Dad fixed up crack (4)
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