Cryptic crossword No 3,602
Mon 22 Jun 2026, set byOzpiper
Special Instructions: A playful theme, hoping you enjoy...
Across
- Reportedly taken in, given fresh evidence of guilt (9)
- Thanks for old terminal being cheap (5)
- Hot, barren disaster zone - not at all nice! (9)
- Attractive, but dangerous - especially after 13! (3)
- Format pad, if only occasionally (3)
- Main third grade report, traditionally 28d (3)
- Sworn off grass around sister holding nothing but cocaine (9)
- Britain with absence of complete darkness (5)
- Comically little power in the shade (5)
- Gatecrashers experience tinnitus occasionally, concealing more offensive condition (9)
- Bright, cool Number One worker! (7)
- Become paler? Relax! (7,2)
- Fresh mix of 4d & 28d? (5)
- See 13a
- New information for which lawyer gives thanks after counter hostilities (3,4)
- Shrill three times (6)
Down
- Cowardly cry reacting to pain (6)
- Dying star exploding - we hit forward with no alternative (5,5)
- Senior displays garter oddly. Ask why? (4)
- Father certain about bar having stock food, ideally 10 (7)
- Did pretend to be in charge while being instructive (8)
- Colourful Lego bit evens out diversity (4)
- New age gas that may become 22, or 12 outside space (4)
- Fine print for knight (5)
- A division having expertise (5)
- Least 22a is most 28a (7)
- Makes sense and avoids leaks (5,5)
- Administered rule very softly with a combination of 13a and 28d (6)
- Shorting setter's currency, it is shortly requiring verifications (6)
- Sadly and, with 28a, beaten badly (4)
- Container, with contents most often black, turns to pink (6)
- Immediately captured first great grandmother, not moving (8)
- Nothing on Earth like river of two colours (4)
- Churn, churn with no right to casual grid feature (4)
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