Cryptic crossword No 3,624
Mon 29 Jun 2026, set byGennaro
Special Instructions: In discussing 9d one may utter a hidden phrase
Across
- Chooses from A-list celebrities making comeback (6)
- Work party (6)
- Oppose lack of movement around internal security (6)
- Setter in jam from suspect indicator (6)
- Complain bitterly with staff controlling a US transportation line (8)
- Every individual losing balance essentially over mirror image (4)
- Point in dispute if fencer periodically leads recklessly (10)
- Mediating mostly tribal fighting by sailor (11)
- Bereft of ecstasy, cocaine also works every now and then (10)
- Most essential part of regiment reportedly (4)
- Bursting forth, return unmixed half of laxative (8)
- Sound publication (6)
- Performs with timpanists, disheartened after retrograde beat (6)
Down
- Popular vermouth I consumed with newcomer (8)
- Infection in French city drained facility (7)
- Butchery of a club leading revolutionary disturbance (8)
- Deviated from melody introducing 'riverdance' at the outset (6)
- Head of state denied opening for local (8)
- Wild fire blazing near church (6)
- Dream starts to take root, a new communist era (6)
- Quiet relations are favourites (11)
- Drink litre - Australian champagne without stopping - a choker, perhaps (8)
- Uncommon Spice Girl largely superior to Cher oddly (6)
- Talent in American dance is English (7)
- Attraction of computer program with email regularly (6)
- Delightful volley unfolded (6)
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