Cryptic crossword No 3,645
Sat 4 Jul 2026, set byMacaroni
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Across
- Mastermind fully keeps alert (7)
- Calculated buffet at deli stocking leftovers at opening (7)
- Retiring swimmer pursues golf for pleasure (4)
- Pawn I blunder let opponent's endgame in- it may be too late? (3,6)
- Handle tea & cake for Brahms and Liszt (4,4,2)
- Aboard a ship, left dock (4)
- Paid back- for example- returning diamonds after he leaves paradise (7)
- Head to where the Spanish show up, it's nice when warm ? (7)
- Liquor old writer almost put in tea (7)
- Perhaps cut-throat one who lifts escaping from trap (5)
- Covering for Pope Leo in mix-up, eating variety of fruit skin (6,4)
- As a bonus, briefly managed to follow previous time (5)
- In the office, catching glimpse of Renaissance painting, maybe (7)
- I toast to the primarily drunk person, making lasting impressions? (9)
Down
- Delicate petal blowing softly around this place (8)
- A badger relaxed (2,4)
- Female deer picked up bucks (5)
- Something unpredictable did crawl around (8) (8)
- Limits sleep and showers (9)
- Pet butterfly? (6)
- Seafood to start- £1 calamari (5)
- Wealth’s regularly polled? No thank you (6)
- Heartlessly knock down one street with small, blossoming businesses (8)
- Man with many hats, caps from Adidas, and denim jackets, all for dancing (4-2-3-6)
- Skilled artists organise clothing line on the counter (8)
- Phoenix’s state (Arizona) entered into database section, missing initial letter (6)
- Basic dart arrow's flight scoring 50, amazingly (15)
- Snake’s finally back in Great Britain, swallowing most of cow and tailless rat (4,5) (4,5)
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