Cryptic crossword No 3,620
Sat 27 Jun 2026, set byPrimus
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Special Instructions: 16d is in Collins, but not in Chambers (for inexplicable reasons).
Across
- Frequent precursor to dropping litter (12)
- Mail boss maybe discovered media storm? (6)
- Speaker control with true current flowing (12)
- Swooning over Norwegian boxing master (8)
- Hire Manor House to ultimate numpty with fatal result (8)
- Youngest leader for emergency services (6)
- Zeus getting around Old Testament benevolence? (8)
- Eastern philosophy 26 adopted since travelling west (4)
- Tended since becoming naked to get wrinkled (8)
- Imprison criminal after getting exonerated at first (4)
- Very foreign criminal let off (8)
- Misinformation about commercial facilities (6)
- Characters in backing tornado posing as slaters (8)
- One wing of nudism getting half undressed - typical! (6)
Down
- Abysmal ignorance let leaders of Eurosceptics engineer leave vote (7,8)
- After ball read about description of twelve; (8)
- Difficult moment for priest in see (6)
- Main science lady regularly lost cool, gone radical (10)
- Wise men conjure primarily with…with fairy’s accoutrement (5,4)
- Occasionally try and sip marrow of hip bones (5)
- Arcades: litter going up (10)
- Unpleasant smell inside case of obsolete instrument (4)
- Peace cut short by Canadian singer's instrument (9)
- Exposed evil at heart of Heather's existence (6)
- Pool money with mate for pétanque finals (4)
- Cryptically making Enid tuck in (3,2)
- Love cycling to Cambridge, perhaps, gaining speed (8)
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