Cryptic crossword No 3,489
Sun 24 May 2026, set bySisyphus
Special Instructions: Toil and trouble - look out!
Across
- Pack plug (for a period working away) (4)
- Shearer unlikely selection for second race (5)
- Monument of Saint Helen unveiled (5)
- With difficulty remand teen for ‘sweet nothing’ (10)
- Attracts insects to bench when boron not applied (8)
- Contents of stew? Kelp and sesame (4)
- Mum originally solved twitch getting gum (6)
- Beetle’s vigil (10)
- Suggesting close shave with cut (4)
- Short article below hinting at crash (7)
- She doesn’t believe half of what he is telling at the start (7)
- Impressive result from digital camera (4)
- Spell ‘ray’ with extra r (6)
- Dog returned to noble coming to royal retreat (8)
- Alternatively, lie head to tail in window recess (5)
Down
- For Sartre, no smell an indication of overall racial otherness (3-5)
- Find plenty of activity here before coming back (4)
- Cross-country race off-course (10)
- Clue in aphid denticles (6)
- Indian goddess’s instrument unfinished (4)
- A gross encore (5)
- Alfalfa provoked ulcer with ‘gas’ (7)
- Abandon brush (5)
- Shirts advertised without logos leading to grievances (7)
- Tel cryptically generating loophole (3-3)
- Scribe’s instrument (8)
- Hollow pipe stuck in earth repeatedly required for fencing (4)
- Easy in Scotland to come from place where witches live having hat stolen (4)
- Once frighten a bear to abandon Britain for France (5)
- Play practical joke and flog the Persian? (4,3,3)
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