Cryptic crossword No 3,631
Wed 1 Jul 2026, set byBenDR
5
Across
- Wattle and daub screen made economically with factory seconds (6)
- Grave concern about England being a long way off (4)
- Can enlist, taking information for hospital (4)
- Mixture of myth, 2 and raving nonsense... group who united chasing noble 32 (10)
- Jacob's son is benign, although not good at accepting a difficult situation (8)
- Great English leaders or, say, revolutionary? (6)
- Major, one that smoulders when he's in congress (6)
- Sued for misrepresentation? That's not new! (4)
- Lead actors take time for launches (6)
- Panama perhaps welcoming king in the flesh (6)
- Tasmanian river saved by activists with forthright position mostly (8)
- For capital, nothing was changed (10)
- House always shows America's great one having "Eye of Providence" (4)
- Say, finale of "Nine to Five" returns (4)
- Ancient fellow doubting new maths with "zero" included (6)
- Remove 32, which is stipulated in fine print (6)
- What film says Beckham does to it (without using his head) gets goals! (4)
- For taxation, second parts of deal expected... accordingly, give us representation! (6)
Down
- Belief rocked with changes after king departed (5)
- ABC reworked popular part of 4 21's origin story (5)
- A patriarch, a supporter, and something his people won't swallow! (7)
- Socialist heart of 2 (3)
- Perhaps 9 25, 13 28, 17 across 22, 30 8 discovered in groups around first leader (8,7)
- Wobbling legs, with sea going on and on (7)
- Beck and son embrace Queen, band with airplane and then starship? (9)
- Study of each going into Richmond after evacuation (4)
- Layer of history effaced near sources (3)
- American high ground providing Australia briefly with sanctuary (5)
- Primarily by American Checkers, king would alone roam direction stated? (9)
- Foolishly, 13 accepts a prophet (5)
- Local inn touring, not with a car (7)
- In first bet, trap for girl (7)
- Bogus claim at heart of 2s (3)
- Main thing first which a politician seeks? (4)
- Keeping stiff upper lip despite not getting turn in rampant coitus (5)
- A mother's type of apple? (5)
- Struggle, with five against one by the end (3)
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