Cryptic crossword No 3,629
Tue 30 Jun 2026, set byHedda
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Across
- Frenchman slain at a disturbance (8)
- Rushed out, sheet departs losing track of time (6)
- Creating no-good union, held in solitary confinement (8)
- Spin doctor dismissed from cleaner holding child captive (8)
- Drape around mountain marauder (8)
- Metal primarily in rivets or nails ? (4)
- Back within painting is new colour (6)
- Removal of the head titan, copied a mongrel (12)
- Moult, then fly around the works (3,4,5)
- First lady will broadcast foul (4)
- Shocked bag has tarantula inside (6)
- Giddy Gail's nothing without a hot drink (3,5)
- Witness director skipping town, partially redeemed (8)
- Incline to believe left, we hear ? (6)
Down
- Scan outside - not great (4)
- Disturbed alien found in mixed nuts called the shots (9)
- Romantic notion initially lost in strange translation (8)
- Party event containing odd insect (5)
- Referee eating root mixture (10)
- Suppresses without succeeding in current affairs (9)
- Barred road at dire construction (8)
- Good line redrafted, encompassing new passage (6)
- Shake up veg; meat periodically out of scope (5)
- Born after end of rock joint (4)
- Ahead of mean time, out of shape (10)
- Inebriated marine burgled at vanishing point ? (7,8)
- Ballerina at heart, Jordanian, essentially eviscerated (6)
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