Cryptic crossword No 3,565
Fri 12 Jun 2026, set byFour5tring
Special Instructions: One or two themed items may be defined a bit sketchily.
Across
- Stylish king, small 1 (5)
- Levitating singer rejecting IPA for double (4)
- Old foreign politicians' current direction not heartless (7)
- Go easy, indulge regularly (4)
- Casually lure lambs to find temporary shelters (9)
- Rascal, perhaps, sounding scatty (5)
- Dead strange instrument (4)
- Lets this pope (liar) avoid borders to find country (8)
- Hawk in exposed bit of Suffolk is more popular with customers (8)
- Many providing iron run into depression (9)
- Far tip of beam removed and attached to the opposite end (5)
- Baker starts to create his exquisite tarts (4)
- Help Iran handle imported fish (7)
- Avoided how schoolgirls might appear (7)
- Proportionate renovation of castle housing leader of old (2,5)
Down
- Swallow porridge (4)
- Holiday advertisement prelude to island ecstasy (6)
- Shortened small lump on banks of river (6)
- Stuff china with money (8)
- Tricky ascent before reading unknown descent (8)
- Number of countries together in bed (5)
- Penny rent in document gets reduced (8)
- Luxury item guided back to one around outskirts of Coventry (8)
- Woman stripping off where wine is kept (4)
- Grass performing well (6)
- Gathered head of department's approach (6)
- Royal beginners in diplomacy under king's direction (4)
- Squealed raising animals (4)
- Lane close to Kent occupied by posh prince (5)
- Compound season for a time (6,3)
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