Haseeb Hameed notched his tenth First-Class ton for Nottinghamshire before his bowling attack broke the back of Warwickshire's batting line-up to leave the visitors four wickets from victory at Edgbaston.
Trailing by 274 on first innings, the hosts closed the third day on 163 for six, still 111 in arrears.
Earlier, Notts had extended their first innings to 367, Hameed carrying his bat for 138 in 399 minutes, supported by Fergus O’Neill (50, 53 balls) and Lyndon James (42, 117).
First, Hameed and James added 51 before the latter edged Ed Barnard to slip.
Hameed reached his 16th first class century, from 196 balls, while O’Neill added some impetus by adding a half-century to his five-for the previous day. The Australian’s ninth four, driven through the covers off Michael Booth, took him to 50 but he perished next ball.
Booth advanced to his five-for with wickets in successive balls when he bowled Brett Hutton through a cross-bat swipe and had Josh Tongue caught behind. And when Farhan Ahmed nicked Barnard to the keeper, Hameed had carried his bat for the second time in his Nottinghamshire career and become the third player, following Mick Newell and Alex Hales, to do so for the county against Warwickshire.
Warwickshire’s rearguard action started badly when Alex Davies edged Hutton to third slip in the fifth over. Rob Yates and Hamza Shaikh grafted to add 34 in 13 overs before Tongue struck just before and after tea. Wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne took the catches as Yates leg-glanced too fine and Sam Hain fenced outside off stump.
Shaikh defied for nearly two hours for 27 but fell lbw when hit on the back leg by O’Neill. Dan Mousley dug in similarly for 32 then became the first victim of spin in the match when trapped lbw by Farhan Ahmed.
With nine balls left in the day, Kai Smith was bowled by a beauty from O'Neill to further embolden Notts' hopes heading into day four.
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