Cryptic crossword No 3,585
Tue 16 Jun 2026, set byBenDR
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Across
- See 5dn
- Present model of electronic leader and promise to have it replace king (9)
- See 8dn
- Lingo he's buggered when Oz leader's gone walkabout? (7)
- See 1ac
- Country in anger at being beaten? (9)
- Enamoured with initially urgent sticky pleasure (5)
- French love having striker's finish piercing defence (6)
- Little dog favourite... eternally poetic and a master of manipulation (9)
- Gore badly? This fellow might! (4)
- Football ground... no values displayed? (4)
- Fake hairdo, as Reverend suggested in lapse of judgement (5,4)
- Game heads two classic, epic tense 8 30s (6)
- Forgetting 'e', incorrectly clue word "quiet" in major tournament (5,3)
- See 5d
- Footballer that's cast in key decision to go and spoil a master class essentially? (5,8)
Down
- Spill the beans: playing well! (6)
- Chinese have odd fog swirling about divine intervention (4,2 3) (4,2,3)
- Chewed fat... quarrel in big game! (7,5)
- In 1986, 11 was there for 24 and married old partner, one a bit shy to deliver detailed quote (6,4)
- Perhaps Bacchanalian cuties can dance (9)
- Star of the show leads in laughing time (7)
- Endless land not getting sown forces reduction (4,3)
- Humiliate with escapade, meandering through the middle (6)
- A quiet ring or loud shout? (6)
- Controlling industrial relations can present as a marker? (5)
- To Hindu, sense of duty is hurt being included in superficial dogma (6)
- Composer of large arrangement (5)
- We pound ground, as 11 eventually did for 7 (5,2)
- Online commitment eating user up (1,9)
- Go with an aired shot? Hard (recent fury when heads not involved)... so this is 11's follow-up to the 7! (4,2,3,7)
- Fellows join union as it provides options! (4)
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