Cryptic crossword No 3,648
Sat 4 Jul 2026, set byBaz
5
Across
- Hinge damaged by tip of screwdriver and end of chisel? Language! (7)
- Discarded PPE taken in by doctor with overdose (7)
- Active old vagrant finds the good life (5,4)
- Go downhill in miniskirt? (3)
- Stagger when a cereal is picked up (5)
- Surprise when wine's served after end of Mass! (5)
- Lobby for fast car to avoid Home Counties occasionally (5)
- Cardinal, when absent, breaking silence (5)
- Debauched Saturnalia, no end of commotion in former penalty colony (9)
- Corrupt beer-drinking cleric (5)
- Degenerate, impudent, holding priest back (7)
- Promiscuous ladies, perhaps, taking ecstasy (5)
- That chap's song on the radio . . . (3)
- . . . poor conductor ruins alto's broadcast (9)
- One who chooses to be criminal, etc, in role reversal (7)
- Personal problem with water supply cut off food processor (5)
- Having no meter, no charge with 6? (4,5)
- Bottom of Meadow Road? (5)
Down
- Applause for guitar played by Ted (9)
- Concepts cast aside (5)
- Old beast's roar had us alarmed (9)
- Composition removing rights from Franciscans, say (3)
- Acoustically modify part of church (5)
- Combination of Einstein's introduction with rule he calculated (5)
- Sanction some counter-intelligence (3)
- Passes online faux pas? (7)
- Stand-in is in Paris, causing upheaval (7)
- Where Bobby's concealed, possibly, went in disreputable parts? (5,4)
- Advance propaganda before French king's overthrown (5)
- Extravagance, essentially found in two flashy hotels (5)
- Detestable, but don't hate them all! (9)
- Risk for each current student (5)
- Old Greek bread creating fuss round Switzerland - 'bread' being slang for money (7)
- Who's nemesis, initially dangerous, armed, lacking essential kindness (5)
- Accommodation deteriorating when temperature's dropped and Victor moves in (5)
- Feverish, upset after short month (7)
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