Cryptic crossword No 3,183
Tue 3 Mar 2026, set byDynamite
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Second time posting here, as always more than happy to receive any constructive feedback from solvers. I'm a bit less pleased with this overall than my first attempt and while there are some clues I'm proud of, I perhaps should have listened to old advice to drop clues that make bits of the grid harder to set. Keen to see what people think, so please let me know!
Thanks Dynamite for an engaging puzzle. As Kempley notes, the clues generally read very well and are mostly technically sound. I liked the ‘no frills’ in 9a, the ‘naughty’ homophone in 10a, the neatness of 2d & 5d, the irony and cleverness of 14d, the delightful ‘wee hours’ of 16d (though some might object to its unindicated ‘poetic’ spelling) and I would have liked 23d even more if the synonym were listed in Chambers and Collins. I did have some quibbles but Kempley has addressed most of these
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