Cryptic crossword No 3,580
Mon 15 Jun 2026, set bytpgrammar
Special Instructions: Solve this puzzle and also solve a 35-year-old mystery - without even trying.
Across
- Following super sex with enrolled nurse, rickety doctor initially held back (11)
- Medical drama captivated by almost-hot male lead (4)
- Fit a little basil into drink (4)
- Drug buddy lying about notebook (6)
- Choosing (and crossing fingers after starting late) to fit in a Tango (6)
- Sins of commission surrounding Iran's planes (8)
- Rhapsody in Orange pop singer from Australia accompanying (8)
- Unknown singles pursuing aim, i.e., places to score (3,5)
- Barmen roughed up "a real comedian" (2,4)
- Connections to underground passages discussed (5)
- Empty commitments full of American bul1$h*t? (4)
- Married religious leader half-heartedly heading for Islamic resort (5)
- Broke unopened bottle ultimately chasing red car (8)
- Reached out for peeled fruit (4)
- Little weasel Draco, finally head of Hogwarts, snubbed by Hermione (6)
Down
- Rustic whisky unfinished - "beneath" noble (7)
- No Exit with new scene about death? (12)
- In northbound freight, set a H-plate indicating old Army battery (5,4)
- Ximenean setter half accepting "to" as comprehensive (1-2-1)
- Salesmen arising according to sun (4)
- Charlie perhaps stole girl non-enthusiastically (7,5)
- Bad opinions grounded in confusion primarily (7)
- Stockpile gathered money (4)
- Enhancing dignity every so often means no fancy jewelry (9)
- Models, from stomach flip-flopping, essentially stressing (5)
- Iron exhausted marine members' skirts for tailor's measurements (7)
- Overlook ordinary college (4)
- Underestimated Sal-Ami's readymade sandwiches (7)
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