Cryptic crossword No 3,638
Fri 3 Jul 2026, set byBurrows
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Across
- Southern wimps are small fry (6)
- Universal navy vessel (3)
- Unit won a race (4)
- Frank, completely unaware, dropped lithium (7)
- Clothe like John McClane? (6)
- Straightforward yellow controller (8)
- Charlie's wood cut - from the shoulder (5,5)
- Outsider, having lost their head, clobbered pupil (7)
- Superior king and queen scoffed extravagant tea (7)
- Encourage City to acquire heartless goalie (4)
- Run job assignments (10)
- Outline Balls' opinion (8)
- Cut back diamond peelers (6)
- Repeat doctrine of onomatopoeia (7)
- Male organ somewhat lost heart, so be it (6)
- A reversal of luck? Yuck! (3)
Down
- Hear ace broadcasting listener's lament (7)
- Stylish Teletubby shorthand (4)
- Aussie pickups left out of stringed instruments (4)
- Knight with many heads (7)
- Old god manifested in university reading room (3)
- ... along with a stylish Anglo-Saxon (2,4,2)
- Fired up casual Christian cleric with incomplete Hindu holy text (6)
- Ribald, hearty gathering (6)
- Switched out site in colourful environment (8)
- Excessively avoids outer garments (10)
- Farrah's stock capital (6)
- Paid company key to their flat at last (6)
- Pen myth about dryad (7)
- Canal chaos provided clue for Zeus? (4,6)
- French coinage some of us principally used ... (3)
- Independent face with union member (7)
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