Cryptic crossword No 3,571
Sat 13 Jun 2026, set bySisyphus
Special Instructions: 15a may be a link to William Blake’s all-encompassing big idea
Across
- Hunter finally exchanged first of canoes getting over river (7)
- Old Italian scholar reasonable in highlighting environmental concerns (10)
- Hard work performing love god around university (7)
- Where Paul Simon was bound to be in charge (8)
- Go over the story about William of Apple? (6)
- Adolescents lacking energy getting stimulating machines (4)
- Portrayal of Krishna with hair out of place (4)
- Scenery with doubtful-sounding decency (7)
- Characters from São Paulo’s waxworks? (10)
- Nice incomes wasted acquiring savant’s property? (11)
- Eunuch allowed to cover nape of neck stuff (6)
- Old man: ‘Good! I’m not into animism, witchcraft etc’ (8)
- Flail lapdog’s back holding something connected to mantle (7)
Down
- After washing salt solution from skin, talc oils staggeringly combined in special places (4)
- Plug VP image in restricted publication (7,4)
- Expose the German sacrificed in secret (7)
- Goodies lie about convictions (10)
- Rat’s mission in the Wild Wood potentially a question of espionage (8)
- Waited as Oxfam digested by Attila?? (4,2)
- Scottish peer‘s gal in an ‘exchange’ (3,4)
- Solution of Sphinx’s riddle cryptically meaning ‘hub’ (5,5)
- Short Pyrenean preferring contact sport to athletics initially (7)
- Issue in back pad touching part of brake? (4,4)
- Himalayan goat brought back in Chrysler hatchback (4)
- Poles abandoning sanctuary for risk assessor (7)
- Brussels newbies? (6)
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