Cryptic crossword No 3,639
Fri 3 Jul 2026, set bySisyphus
Special Instructions: 7d,17d may be a corollary of something realised elsewhere in the grid
Across
- Pound ceded without banks eliciting charge (8)
- Walking exercises not much changed when starting with run (8)
- Chalk a literal case of this (6)
- Dares include ‘viz’ amongst short definitions (6)
- Official title’s Atomiser (6)
- Countability's diminished after sunrise here? (12)
- State of hedgerow fruit by main road to Norwich (6)
- Waiter essentially cutest in French valley, right? (8)
- A cow in the main really enjoyed running government (6)
- Easy to stomach editor whimsically replacing Genesis (6)
- Shattered spine in initially non-physical game (8)
- Italian team less ruffled given second heat exchange systems (12)
Down
- E sharp originally eg Horn key (6)
- Shock as paintings returned with note ‘lacking in taste’ (6)
- Bird’s red-hot egg (8)
- Passion for AC/DC in pool (6)
- Channel has large numbers cycling (4)
- Got recognised (8)
- Monkey in gingham clothes entering (6,2)
- An objection intended for auditor’s meeting (8)
- Organised crime importing Tesla as standard (6)
- Produces special puppets (6)
- Intermittently snoozier kind of film (4)
- Slender artist wearing worn overall turns up (6)
- As dead as this dodo - no second death, ultimately reborn in another bird (8)
- Finally mean to include ambassador (2,3,3)
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