Cryptic crossword No 3,562
Thu 11 Jun 2026, set byCricket
Special Instructions: They don't make them like they used to. Crossword clues either, perhaps :/... As ever, all feedback welcomed and eagerly received.
Across
- It controls behaviour of arm with circuit, arranges my sets (6,6)
- Sire briefly struggling with arrow involved in fighting men (8)
- Precisely strike (4)
- Allow malevolent computer to order own pea shooter, perhaps (6,6)
- Top man in Ashtead regularly meeting resistance (4)
- See 22d
- Proust bewildered, in a daze (6)
- Misspelled line in atlas drawn for visitors (6)
- Deplorably parroted Epstein, perhaps (8)
- Abandoned minaret on craggy hill, where night begins? (10)
- Madman, with name that's unknown gets one involved in road rage incidents (3,3)
- More excited about state of Invernessian, perhaps (10)
Down
- Trial and not bargain (6)
- Steal idiom from time to time, make originally rarely (6)
- Hear Buddhist discovering speaker (3,3)
- See 15d
- Behaves when about to have (6)
- Large scale septic tanks emptied, removed (4)
- Stocking spooner's Egyptian river cruise? (5)
- Bit of light Asian soup, not from the south (6)
- Running around to discover hotel (3)
- Part we hear with a murder in error (7)
- Lively pieces of music from MinDisc, her zillionth (7)
- Cartels working with reds (7)
- Range of stories without beginning or end (3)
- Am up high with mountain lion (4)
- Moves carefully forward, capturing one making sounds (6)
- Occasionally engage with a smooth coating of glaze (7)
- Musician isn't taking first bit of nonsense after calling out fibber (6)
- Perfect memory of baby talk - side-splitting, near playground, the whole lot! (5,6)
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